On 9/22/08 5:54 PM, "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:07:16 -0600 > "Carl D. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 9/22/08 4:39 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Here's a version with fret diagrams, Reinhold's >>> suggestion and a few other tweaks. Is this >>> better? >>> >> I like it > > I don't. Yes, fret diagrams are very important to guitar players. > But dodecaphonic accidentals are very important to twelve-tone > composers. Harp pedals are very important to harpists. Arbitrary > microtonal accidentals are very important to Turkish musicians, as > well as a vast number of people writing academic compositions. > > At least a third of the items in the NEWS are "very important" to > one particular group of musicians; I really think that we should > only list items that are "very important" to *everybody* in the > release notes. > > ... > I really don't want to put down the amazing work you did on the > transposabl FretBoards... I don't know that transposable FretBoards qualifies as "amazing work"; it's just my itch that I was _finally_ able to scratch. I don't consider your suggesting something else as the release notes feature a put down. > but actually, if I were to pick one > thing from that previous list, I'd go with the arbitrary > microtonal accidentals. That opens up the use of lilypond to a > huge number of extra people; guitarists could still get stuff done > with 'pond before the new FretBoard stuff. I'm OK with that. I'd be fine with microtonal accidentals as a great new feature to add. I just think we should have *something* in the release notes, rather than just saying "lots of unspecified great features". Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
