Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:35:28PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: Without intending the slightest offence towards those of you who've already put a lot of work into the CG, I think it can still be clearer. The only organization that's gone into the CG is putting stuff into chapters. The section

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi Mark, Graham, On 19/12/09 10:49, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:35:28PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: Without intending the slightest offence towards those of you who've already put a lot of work into the CG, I think it can still be clearer. The only organization that's

Re: PATCH: Issue 638 Autobeaming

2009-12-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/18/09 10:57 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: On 12/18/09 9:52 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Carl, you wrote Friday, December 18, 2009 4:21 PM On 12/18/09 2:49 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote:

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/18/09 11:35 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey everyone. Without intending the slightest offence towards those of you who've already put a lot of work into the CG, I think it can still be clearer. I'm toying around with a bunch of new paragraphs over here, and I

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:16:19PM +, Ian Hulin wrote: Trevor did a brilliant job with the Windows section and in some respects it's clearer and less forbidding than the material in 1.1 to 1.4. It also duplicates a lot of the material in those sections. With respect, I disagree.

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Mark Polesky
Okay... I'll just show you what I was thinking. I know this looks like a lot of work, but most of it would be shuffling stuff around to have a more logical order of presentation, and a more organized structure to facilitate referring to specifics. Some of it would entail adding text, but I'd be

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:37 PM On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:16:19PM +, Ian Hulin wrote: Trevor did a brilliant job with the Windows section and in some respects it's clearer and less forbidding than the material in 1.1 to 1.4. It also duplicates a lot of the

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:45:15PM -, Trevor Daniels wrote: I just want to copypaste, go get a coffee, then start editing files. You might, but I don't agree this is a good attitude to encourage in contributors who might go on to write LilyPond code. We need contributors whose eyes do

Re: improving the CG

2009-12-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/19/09 3:39 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Okay... I'll just show you what I was thinking. I know this looks like a lot of work, but most of it would be shuffling stuff around to have a more logical order of presentation, and a more organized structure to facilitate

more compiling questions

2009-12-19 Thread Mark Polesky
1) Is there a difference between... ...`make doc' and `make doc *'? ...`make clean' and `make clean *'? ...etc. 2) If I'm running `make' or `make doc', can I continue to work on git, changing branches, making commits, etc.? I assume no, but if someone knows, let me know. - Mark

Re: more compiling questions

2009-12-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/19/09 7:29 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: 1) Is there a difference between... ...`make doc' and `make doc *'? ...`make clean' and `make clean *'? ...etc. I've never used make doc * -- I have no idea what that means. 2) If I'm running `make' or `make doc',

doc question: @example inside @warning?

2009-12-19 Thread Joe Neeman
If you have a look at commit 06b6383aca113, you'll see a commented out paragraph that looks like this: @c FIXME: is it possible to have @example inside @warning? @c @warning{ Adjacent non-staff lines should have non-increasing @c @var{staff-affinity} from top-to-bottom. For example, the behavior