On Friday 27 August 2004 02:14, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Because the Lilypond doesn't care what users do. It's more that we > want to have a uniform style so our manual and examples look uniform. > Better that we don't set Official Guidelines, rather, we could present > our style as an option. > > FWIW, I always use the emacs standard mode settings, which does 4 > space indents. However, the manual does not use standard indents. > 2 space indents makes more sense for the space constrained manual. > > Maybe we ought to set our standard to two spaces, and move all manual > examples to 2 spaces. Jan? >
As an IT trainer, I've found that style suggestions can significantly ease the learning curve and the error rate, simply by providing a set of consistent rules for the eye to follow. Make 'em suggestions and people can chose whether they want to use them. If you make the suggestions, they _will_ be used (perhaps inconsistently), official or not. My 'style' is based on 3 spaces <g> (True - based on my historic visual preference for a 2-space offset from the C language. I use 3 spaces because I can't seem to 'see' the backslash as part of the token, but rather an escape preceeding a token. <sigh>) _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
