2010/10/20 Valentin Villenave <[email protected]>

> 2010/10/20 Janek Warchoł <[email protected]>:
> > I've finally read all this and i'm still not convinced, because these
> > dicsussions don't mention my idea at all (i suggest that numbers 3, 5, 6,
> 7,
> > 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17 etc. should become valid durations, and
> work
> > like the familiar 1, 2 , 4, 8, 16 etc.). Nevertheless, i think i should
> put
> > this on hold (unless someone wants to discuss privately) - maybe my
> english
> > is not good enough to explain this...
>
> Your idea is interesting, but *very* un-LilyPond-ish in its logic. I
> couldn't explain it better (and certainly not in English!), but maybe
> in a few years you'll understand what I mean ;-)
>

Well, i'll wait a year then :) and rethink this idea again when i have more
experience.

You may think of LilyPond as a language (that is now almost 15-years
> old, which is a long, long time). (...)
> That's when I finally understood how powerful LilyPond really is, and
> how foolish I was to ask the developers to adapt Lily to my needs,
> where *I* could adapt it myself just the way I wanted.


I would agree in case of a more sophisticated issue - but this one is, in my
opinion at least, one of the basics. Using such tricks is undoubtedly
helpful, but the code becomes less portable. Besides, new users cannot take
advantage of this timesaver unless they stumble on a particular thread in
mailing archives or figure it out themselves.
For me it looks like you are creating a new "dialect of the LilyPond
language" - of course you are perfectly free to do this, but i prefer
unification.

cheers,
Jan
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