Re: better error msg for ambiguous (de)crescendo?

[Ian Hulin]

Hi Mark, Werner

The most important thing about these errors is that they can _always_ be 
traced back to a source line so is it possible to word the error 
something like:

warning: lilypond cannot interpret a (de)crescendo.
         MIDI output ignoring (de)crescendo starting at line <nnnn>.

This way the diagnostic states why Lily can't do what the user has 
coded, what it's doing as a result, and the consequences of the error 
condition detected.

Cheers,
Ian

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Here are my candidates:
> >   "warning: impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo."
> >   "warning: impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo (MIDI)."
> >   "warning: ignoring impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo."
> >   "warning: ignoring impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo (MIDI)."
> >   "warning: MIDI found an impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo."
> >   "warning: MIDI is ignoring an impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo."
> >
> > Anyone care to vote, suggest an alternative, or express
> > an opposition to this idea?
>
> What about
>
>   warning: MIDI: impossible or ambiguous (de)crescendo: ignored
>
> It looks horrible from a grammatical point of view, but it probably
> makes scanning through log files easier.
>
>
>     Werner