On 8/18/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Sandberg wrote: > > I think we're talking about different things: you're talking about how to > > convince them, I just suggested what we could try to learn by talking to > > them. > > Certainly; however, learning how to engrave is not a top prority for me. > I usually just stare at well engraved scores. Also, SCORE users tend to > answer with comments like "You need to use ZX command P17 set to 23".
Right. This is actually another benefit of Lily over SCORE: all of Lily's parameters are *NAMED* rather than magic numbers (well, almost all: could someone please get rid of -1, 1 for "up" and "down"? ;-), and ALL of SCORE's parameters are magic numbers. AFAIK, key-value pairs didn't exist in the late 70s when Leland started development (or maybe they did; anyway, they didn't make it into the program). To use SCORE you literally have to memorize that p2 means "staff number", p3 means "horizontal position", p4 means "start vertical position", p5 might mean "glyph size as a percentage of default", etc. But all SCORE users do this and, once you do it's no problem. As H-W points out, the problem is that the conversation on the score list is inscrutible to outsiders (unless you have a hardcopy of the SCORE user manual). Trevor. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
