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Re: Another documentation issue
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Stephen |
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Re: Another documentation issue |
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Thu, 19 May 2005 15:07:38 -0500 |
I think my main gripe is that there may be a trend towards catering to the
requests of the user. Ideally, Lilypond should be made incapable of
producing bad output. That means limiting the options and choices given to
the user.
Usually I applaud when a developer responds to a user. But some users are
ignorant of what music engraving should look like. Catering to such a users
requests makes Lilypond look bad. Instead Lilypond is in a position to
educate the public concerning good music engraving practices. I look forward
to the day when there are alternate sets of fonts besides the Feta font, but
I do not look forward to a day when it is easy to mix the fonts since they
will only be made to look good with themselves, for instance.
Lilypond's ultumate goal is to enable better perfomances:
better typography translates to better performances>
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>
To: "Stephen" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>; "lily-devel"
<address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Another documentation issue
Stephen wrote:
I wonder if all the developers are still on board with the goal of
keeping the format 'as lean as possible'?
>
written, but still we have 'condensed' and 'lean' as words defining the
purpose and goal of writing Lilypond and for Lilypond. My take on it is
anyone who joins these two in developing Lilypond, should first adopt
their philosophy.
And finally, another important quote (from 1.2 Automated engraging) that
defines a goal I am not sure all the developers are on board with:
Can you be specific about your gripes?
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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