David Kastrup wrote Re: '-signs in vectors - postulated in LM
> I just noticed that the file > Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely generally talks a lot of nonsense > about vectors, calling them a "list preceded by '#", which is rather > misleading since at no time they are a list, I assume you mean the table in http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/learning/types-of-properties The last line uses 'list' in the usual English sense, not the meaning in Scheme. (I know, because I wrote it.) I see it could be misleading to anyone who knows Scheme, but those are not the intended readers of the Learning Manual. Perhaps it should be changed to 'set', as that was the term used earlier in the table. Or maybe drop that term altogether and write "Three items separated by spaces, enclosed in parentheses and preceded by hash, #." Would that correct the "lot of nonsense", or is there more? > It very much looks like the author of the sections talking about vectors > and/or the reviewers were not really familiar with them. True; and there was no review procedure when that section was written (and no helpful expert either :). Remember, though, this manual is to help people new to LilyPond to write /LilyPond/ code with the minimum exposure to the underlying technical details. That said, it must not make any inaccurate or potentially misleading statements, so let's get this corrected. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
