Jordan Eldredge wrote:
I am currently working on wikilily.org and realized that one thing
that could be very helpful when collaborating on Lilypond code, would
be a style guide. My question for all of you is: has any other project
drafted a style guide for Lilypond code?
The main things I imagine it wold cover would be:
How many spaces should an indent be?
When should indentation be used?
Where should line breaks be used?
Where should spaces be used?
All these are things that a good text editor with LilyPond support,
could handle more or less automatically.
For example, the LilyPond mode in Emacs handles the indentation
automatically. I would imagine that lilypondtool does the same. Such
editor support provides a de facto style guide, which often is much more
useful than a style guide in textual form. Since it's a known fact that
different users have different favorite editors and we can never expect
to get an agreement on a single editor that everybody will use, a good
first step would be to make sure that the existing LilyPond modes for
different text editors follow the same style guide.
Another thing it might include would be:
A general guide for structuring the code.
I doubt that you can find rules that both will make sense to an
experienced programmer and that a musician without any programming
experience will be able to understand and adopt, but feel free to make
an attempt.
/Mats
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