Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-06 Thread tdanielsmusic
On 2012/10/07 03:14:31, david.nalesnik wrote: This looks great to me. I like the reordering, and I think the explanations are very clear. I've tweaked the curves a little in the examples (do what you like with my suggestions!), Thanks. I've adopted them, but with just a little further twe

Re: "unofficial GOP proposal" organization of GLISS discussions

2012-10-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 02:43:48PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Marc Hohl writes: > > > Am 05.10.2012 18:34, schrieb Janek Warchoł: > > > >> i find it hard to keep up with our GLISS discussions. I've also > >> heard that the amount of technical details, digressions and > >> "multithreadedness"

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:03:40PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM, James wrote: > > How is a web interface easier than email to enter information? > > I should've been more specific. I meant a web interface that would > not only allow entering information, but also

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-06 Thread david . nalesnik
Trevor-- This looks great to me. I like the reordering, and I think the explanations are very clear. I've tweaked the curves a little in the examples (do what you like with my suggestions!), but otherwise: LGTM. https://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/6001/Documentation/notation/changing

Patchy report

2012-10-06 Thread grenouille
21:58:02 (UTC) Begin LilyPond compile, previous commit at c3656fce28382903c7d2c18500f74e624e4a 21:58:12 From git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/lilypond * [new tag] release/2.17.4-1 -> release/2.17.4-1 21:58:12 Another instance (PID 29551) is already running. 22:29:01 Merged staging,

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread Keith OHara
Ian Hulin hulin.org.uk> writes: There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the current \times command. 1. \tuplet n/m {} This should be relatively easy to implement by adding declarations to music-functions-init.ly. It is quite easy, so we can try it out with the atta

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-06 Thread tdanielsmusic
Reviewers: Keith, david.nalesnik, Message: I've added an example showing two curves that start at the same musical moment being shaped, as well as the changes suggested by Keith and David. http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/1/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely File Documenta

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Benkő Pál writes: The normal setting is to have four notes in a full 3/4 bar. >>> >>> That would be \times 3/4 rather than \times 6/4, right? >> >> Exactly. > > four quarters, yes; four eigths are 6/4, and that's what I've seen. > > regarding the \tuplet shorthand: I would hate "\tuplet n"

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread Benkő Pál
>>> The normal setting is to have four notes in a full 3/4 bar. >> >> That would be \times 3/4 rather than \times 6/4, right? > > Exactly. four quarters, yes; four eigths are 6/4, and that's what I've seen. regarding the \tuplet shorthand: I would hate "\tuplet n" meaning not "\tuplet n/1" but "

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The normal setting is to have four notes in a full 3/4 bar. > > That would be \times 3/4 rather than \times 6/4, right? Exactly. Werner ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-dev

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> I haven't seen quadruplets in the wild, so that seems like a >> stretch. > > They are quite common in late-romantic piano music. > >> When they occur, it seems audacious to assume they are 6/4. More >> likely than not, I would expect them to be 3/4, like if you have 4 >

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I haven't seen quadruplets in the wild, so that seems like a > stretch. They are quite common in late-romantic piano music. > When they occur, it seems audacious to assume they are 6/4. More > likely than not, I would expect them to be 3/4, like if you have 4 > notes on a halfmeasure in a 6/8

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-06 Thread lemzwerg
LGTM now. http://codereview.appspot.com/6610058/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: lilypond-book: treat iffalse sections in latex as block comments (issue 6584073)

2012-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So, your opinion is that lilypond-book SHOULD process the > \lilypond{...} code inside the \iffalse section and spectacularly > fail. It is debatable how much plain TeX code should be used at all in a LaTeX document. Just think of a latex->html translation. > With my colleagues, I have never

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Ian Hulin writes: > Thanks to everyone for their feedback so far. > Here is Version 2 of the proposal. > > There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the > current \times command. > > 1. \tuplet n/m {} > % does what \times does, but not so easily confused with \time > % co

[proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-06 Thread Ian Hulin
Thanks to everyone for their feedback so far. Here is Version 2 of the proposal. There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the current \times command. 1. \tuplet n/m {} % does what \times does, but not so easily confused with \time % command. 2. \triplet {} % shorthand fo

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Ian Hulin writes: > On 05/10/12 08:47, David Kastrup wrote: >> Ian Hulin writes: >> >>> 1. Should the new \tuplet retain the \times meaning of the fraction, >>> i.e. \tuplet 2/3 {c8 c c} uses 2/3 because that's what you'd use if you >>> were just using durations: c8*2/3 c c , or >>> invert it a

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-06 Thread Ian Hulin
On 05/10/12 08:47, David Kastrup wrote: > Ian Hulin writes: > >> 1. Should the new \tuplet retain the \times meaning of the fraction, >> i.e. \tuplet 2/3 {c8 c c} uses 2/3 because that's what you'd use if you >> were just using durations: c8*2/3 c c , or >> invert it as \tuplet 3/2 {c8 c c} becau

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/06/2012 05:46 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: As you say, compile-edit-compile cycles are shorter than the full build, but can occasionally not reveal errors, so for a proper test it's always better to nuke the build directory and rebuild from scratch. Out of curiosity, what kind of errors? I ima

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
James writes: > Says someone who evidently has never built, submitted or tested 'doc' > patches for LP. Joseph Wakeling (12): Extended documentation on Turkish classical music and Makam. Turkish classical music corrections. Turkish classical music documentation tweaks. Co

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" To: "Phil Holmes" Cc: "James" ; Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches On 10/06/2012 05:21 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Unfortunately, test

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-06 Thread Ian Hulin
On 05/10/12 08:10, James wrote: > Hello, > > On 5 October 2012 00:19, Ian Hulin wrote: >> This is a proposal to move the triplet/tuplet discussion forward. >> >> There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the >> current \times command. >> >> 1. \tuplet n/m {} >> % does what

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/06/2012 05:21 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: Unfortunately, testing that docs compile cleanly takes about 15 times as long as code, so it's not for the underpowered or faint hearted. Used to be 2 3/4 hours on my virtual machine. Yes, true. The from-scratch build time for docs is pretty hefty, t

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" To: "James" Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches On 10/06/2012 04:46 PM, James wrote: Says someone who evidently has never bui

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/06/2012 04:46 PM, James wrote: Says someone who evidently has never built, submitted or tested 'doc' patches for LP. Er ... yes, I have. Actually my objections to having to use git-cl were based on my experience of trying to submit a simple, small doc patch that I'd built and tested.

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread James
Hello, On 6 October 2012 15:23, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 10/06/2012 11:34 AM, James wrote: >> >> How is a web interface easier than email to enter information? > > > Well, the problem with simple doc patches is that to submit them to Lilypond > you have to go through the same procedure

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > On 10/05/2012 09:31 AM, Keith OHara wrote: >> It is easier to keep the order straight if you write a 5:4 tuplet >> as \tuplet 5/4 {} > > Is there any reason why you couldn't write \tuplet 5:4 {} ... ? Yes. 5/4 is an item that the parser is readily able to recog

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - was [talk] easy tuplets

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/05/2012 09:31 AM, Keith OHara wrote: It is easier to keep the order straight if you write a 5:4 tuplet as \tuplet 5/4 {} Is there any reason why you couldn't write \tuplet 5:4 {} ... ? Keeps exact match between musical and Lilypond syntax and avoids the potential mental block of having

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/06/2012 11:34 AM, James wrote: How is a web interface easier than email to enter information? Well, the problem with simple doc patches is that to submit them to Lilypond you have to go through the same procedure as if you were submitting a code patch, which means uploading to Riedveld

Re: lilypond-book: treat iffalse sections in latex as block comments (issue 6584073)

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Reinhold Kainhofer writes: > On 2012-10-06 06:33, lemzw...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> http://codereview.appspot.com/6584073/diff/1/python/book_latex.py#newcode88 >> python/book_latex.py:88: \\iffalse.*\\fi))''', >> As David has commented on the list, I would prefer if you replaced the >> \iffalse

Re: "unofficial GOP proposal" organization of GLISS discussions

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 05.10.2012 18:34, schrieb Janek Warchoł: > >> i find it hard to keep up with our GLISS discussions. I've also >> heard that the amount of technical details, digressions and >> "multithreadedness" stops some people from participating, as they >> don't have enough time to re

Re: lilypond-book: treat iffalse sections in latex as block comments (issue 6584073)

2012-10-06 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-10-06 06:33, lemzw...@googlemail.com wrote: http://codereview.appspot.com/6584073/diff/1/python/book_latex.py File python/book_latex.py (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6584073/diff/1/python/book_latex.py#newcode88 python/book_latex.py:88: \\iffalse.*\\fi))''', On 2012/10/06 02:12

Re: bar-line interface part 2/2: New bar line definition standard (issue 6498052)

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 30.09.2012 22:03, schrieb d...@gnu.org: >> On 2012/09/30 19:44:49, marc wrote: >>> Am 30.09.2012 11:02, schrieb d...@gnu.org: >>> > [...] >>> > First, the define-public is asking for trouble. You are exposing an >>> > internal Scheme data structure to users and make it over

Re: "unofficial GOP proposal" organization of GLISS discussions

2012-10-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 05.10.2012 18:34, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi all, i find it hard to keep up with our GLISS discussions. I've also heard that the amount of technical details, digressions and "multithreadedness" stops some people from participating, as they don't have enough time to read long conversations car

Re: bar-line interface part 2/2: New bar line definition standard (issue 6498052)

2012-10-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 30.09.2012 22:03, schrieb d...@gnu.org: On 2012/09/30 19:44:49, marc wrote: Am 30.09.2012 11:02, schrieb d...@gnu.org: > [...] > First, the define-public is asking for trouble. You are exposing an > internal Scheme data structure to users and make it overwritable by the > user. If the user

Re: bar-line interface part 2/2: New bar line definition standard (issue 6498052)

2012-10-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 06.10.2012 11:23, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: 2012/10/5 : It just occured to me: is there any way to specify different span bar lines (at the end of the line and at the beginning of the line)? Marc and me, we discussed this some time ago and

Next release

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Holmes
I'm currently building 2.17.4 and plan to upload it tonight and have it available tomorrow. Please use 2.17.5 for claiming fixes on the issues list from now. -- Phil Holmes ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.o

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM, James wrote: > How is a web interface easier than email to enter information? I should've been more specific. I meant a web interface that would not only allow entering information, but also handle the patch - a formal patch, not just a suggestion. Take gith

Re: Patchy email from PhilH

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "John Mandereau" To: Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 3:13 AM Subject: Re: Patchy email from PhilH This email looks like you're using an old revision of Patchy; in case it doesn't include convenience/safety checks before pushing to master (introduced i

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Janek Warchoł writes: >>> I think it would be good to polish this, so that this either works or >>> always produces syntax error. >> >> Figuring out heuristics when or when one should not issue a warning is >> not

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread James
Hello, On 6 October 2012 09:51, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Just a musing > I think the case shown below would perfectly qualify for "could you > write a documentation patch for this? it can be done with a web > interface, instructions are here" - if we had the web interface. > > On Sat, Oct 6, 20

Re: Provide an \undo function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread tdanielsmusic
On 2012/10/06 07:44:51, Trevor Daniels wrote: I think I would prefer to name this function \undo. This more accurately expresses what it does: \undo\voiceOne reverses everything that \voiceOne does, or did. The action of \un\voiceOne is not so intuitively obvious, nor does it make an English wor

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:15 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: >> I think it would be good to polish this, so that this either works or >> always produces syntax error. > > Figuring out heuristics when or when one should not issue a warning is > not all that easy to decide with a r

Re: bar-line interface part 2/2: New bar line definition standard (issue 6498052)

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2012/10/5 : >> It just occured to me: is there any way to specify different span bar >> lines (at the end of the line and at the beginning of the line)? > > Marc and me, we discussed this some time ago and decided not to > provide that functi

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> Are there any limitations? For example, >>> would \un\clef and \un\key result in >>> - reverting to previous clef/key >>> - something strange >>> - syntax error >> >> Something strange is most likely. \set doe

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Are there any limitations? For example, >> would \un\clef and \un\key result in >> - reverting to previous clef/key >> - something strange >> - syntax error > > Something strange is most likely. \set does not really maintain a > stack, s

[talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submitting simple doc patches

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
Just a musing I think the case shown below would perfectly qualify for "could you write a documentation patch for this? it can be done with a web interface, instructions are here" - if we had the web interface. On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:3

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:10 AM, wrote: >> Is it enough to say that after >> >> unHideNotes = \un\hideNotes >> oneVoice = \un\voiceOne >> >> you would not notice a difference? \un\omit StringNumber will revert the >> effect of \omit StringNumber. > > That's what i expecte

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:10 AM, wrote: > Is it enough to say that after > > unHideNotes = \un\hideNotes > oneVoice = \un\voiceOne > > you would not notice a difference? \un\omit StringNumber will revert the > effect of \omit StringNumber. That's what i expected. Are there any limitations? For

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread dak
On 2012/10/06 07:44:51, Trevor Daniels wrote: I think I would prefer to name this function \undo. This more accurately expresses what it does: \undo\voiceOne reverses everything that \voiceOne does, or did. The action of \un\voiceOne is not so intuitively obvious, nor does it make an English wor

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 6 oct. 2012 à 09:10, d...@gnu.org a écrit : > Reviewers: janek, > > Message: > On 2012/10/05 14:46:09, janek wrote: >> please provide usage example(s). I suppose i like this idea, but > without >> examples i don't know what exactly will be possible, and what won't be > possible. > > Is it en

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread tdanielsmusic
I think I would prefer to name this function \undo. This more accurately expresses what it does: \undo\voiceOne reverses everything that \voiceOne does, or did. The action of \un\voiceOne is not so intuitively obvious, nor does it make an English work or phrase. \reverse would be an alternative,

Re: Provide an \un function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-06 Thread dak
Reviewers: janek, Message: On 2012/10/05 14:46:09, janek wrote: please provide usage example(s). I suppose i like this idea, but without examples i don't know what exactly will be possible, and what won't be possible. Is it enough to say that after unHideNotes = \un\hideNotes oneVoice = \u

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-06 Thread Julien Rioux
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:06 AM, wrote: > Are you going to report the number of errors using the `errors' > variable? In case this is true, I would consider this a bad idea, since > you abuse the functionality of the exit status. > > How large can `errors' become? The value returned by `exit' mu