On 2009-08-21, Mark Polesky wrote: > Patrick McCarty wrote: > > - The ones in COPYING are important in that they define > > where the page breaks (form feeds) are. > > Okay.
Well, I just downloaded gpl-2.0.txt from gnu.org to see if it has formfeeds, and it does not. So I'm okay with removing these. :-) > > - The ones in define-markup-commands.scm are used to > > delimit new sections. > > Okay, but there's no consistency -- they are used to delimit > 4 sections out of 15: > > utility functions > geometric shapes > space > importing graphics > basic formatting > property > files > fonts > symbols > \f > glyphs > the note command > translating > \f > brackets > \f > Delayed markup evaluation > \f > Markup list commands > > And why, out of the 70 or so other files in scm/ should > this be the only one to use them? You're right. There usage does seem pretty haphazard. Now that I'm listening to your argument, I'm in favor of removing these too. > What do you think? I think we should remove the formfeed characters from COPYING and define-markup-commands.scm, but leave the single formfeed in the emacsclient patch. Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
