2011/9/13 Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:23:19AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> It's tutorial-speak at its best. I don't understand either your
>> unhappiness nor your displeasure.
>
> The tutorial is not the place for musings or cleverness. The goal
> is to get people started writing music with the minimum amount of
> fuss. We don't even teach people how to write accidentals in the
> tutorial! This is quite deliberate -- the tutorial is only for
> the absolute minimum to get started.
If by "tutorial" you mean chapter 1 of Learning Manual, i can agree.
> This tip should go in @ref{Suggestions for writing files}, and of
> course in the Notation reference. If you really think it should
> be earlier, we could discuss a rewrite of Learning 2.4.3 Absolute
> note names, to be more general ("alterate note entry"? "relative
> and absolute modes revisised"?) and adding this tip. But I would
> like to discuss that patch on Rietveld before it's pushed.
Sounds reasonable.
cheers,
Janek
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