Re: Handling of objects near barlines

2015-10-08 Thread David Sumbler
Thanks to Harm and Simon for their responses, which were much as I expected. I still can't see why others don't think my idea is a good one, since it makes some things easier to do and makes nothing more difficult than it is currently - unless Simon is really being serious when he says he doesn't

Handling of objects near barlines

2015-10-05 Thread David Sumbler
For a while I have been thinking about something which I feel could be a useful modification of Lilypond's behaviour. Lilypond defaults to standard choices for musical notation, which generally saves a lot of work - for instance, it assumes that when we write c4 we want a standard crotchet to

Re: Handling of objects near barlines

2015-10-05 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello David, On 05.10.2015 19:49, David Sumbler wrote: Even when we write the opposite, Lilypond still conforms to the standard practice - which is very nice of it, but unnecessary. Lilypond is a practical tool, not an educational one, and people using it know the conventions I don’t and I’m

Re: Handling of objects near barlines

2015-10-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-10-05 19:49 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler : > For a while I have been thinking about something which I feel could be a > useful modification of Lilypond's behaviour. > > Lilypond defaults to standard choices for musical notation, which > generally saves a lot of work - for