Hello It's OK, I am not offended. I am sure that none of it was meant maliciously. So don't fret, I am sure I'll be showing my ignorance again in the future on these lists.
=8 ) As I said to Trevor earlier, the conductor of my orchestra (and wind band) gives me a score to play not a system, when I use LilyPond I personally create/transcribe/copy 'scores' not systems and also while I am not anywhere near diploma level of Musicianship I have gone back through my basic Music Theory primers and no where (at all) is the term 'system' used or even mentioned. So I assumed this was just a 'developer' convention and didn't even think this was something I'd look up in the glossary. As an instrument player (as opposed to a singer or 'vocalist') who has neither conducted or composed anything more than a few 'dittys' I can see how this would be the case where I have never come across the term system. Still that all aside, I think David K and others have got the point I was making. Pip! Pip! James -----Original Message----- From: lilypond-devel-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org on behalf of Graham Percival Sent: Tue 12/10/2010 23:44 To: Carl Sorensen Cc: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:23:49PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 10/12/10 4:20 PM, "Wols Lists" <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > > For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a > > computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the > > man-in-the-street tends to call them both "memory"). > > Yes, but some of us who use LilyPond don't qualify as musicians. Yes. In particular, the ONLY PERSON who is actually working as a general documentation editor. Wols: it would be nice if you did at least 1% of the work that James Lowe has done for LilyPond. He has spent a huge amount of time fixing problems in the docs, using tools he didn't know, on aspects of music that he's not familiar, and without complaint about the poor quality of documentation bug reports that he has been resolving. He is not, by any stretch of the imagination, "seriously incompetent". Show him some respect. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel