On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:52:54 -0600, Trevor Bača wrote: > ... But maybe this logical, user-centric division can be > handled perfectly cleanly just in the docs? The docs for settings can > then look something like this (and this is obviously just a sketch, > some pseudocode for the actual docs that I'll clean up long before > sending to Graham): > > "LilyPond supports 47 different different page layout and setup > settings. These settings divide into 5 different functional areas. > These five functional areas are: > > * page dimensions > * page margins > * headers and footers > * the layout of systems > * the location of line- and page-breaks > > In addition, LilyPond input files support three different places where > these different settings can be made. These three levels where > settings can be made are: > > * score level > * book level > * top level > > Some settings can be made only at score level and book level. Other > settings can be made at all three levels. In the detailed descriptions > that follow, we note whether a setting can be set at 2 or 3 levels. > > < insert descriptions of all settings here, according to the five > functional areas given above >." > > > So how does this sound?
This type of plan makes good sense to me. This non-programmer user can see how it works, and I would be happy to use and explain it. I hope it's workable from the Lilypond internal code point of view. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
