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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions


From: Wols Lists
Subject: Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:08:56 +0100
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 On 12/10/10 23:44, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:23:49PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>> On 10/12/10 4:20 PM, "Wols Lists" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> For a musician to get that wrong is as seriously incompetent as for a
>>> computer guy to refer to a hard disk as ram (I know the
>>> man-in-the-street tends to call them both "memory").
>> Yes, but some of us who use LilyPond don't qualify as musicians.
> Yes.  In particular, the ONLY PERSON who is actually working as a
> general documentation editor.
>
> Wols: it would be nice if you did at least 1% of the work that
> James Lowe has done for LilyPond.  He has spent a huge amount of
> time fixing problems in the docs, using tools he didn't know, on
> aspects of music that he's not familiar, and without complaint
> about the poor quality of documentation bug reports that he has
> been resolving.  He is not, by any stretch of the imagination,
> "seriously incompetent".  Show him some respect.
>
>
Sorry. I did say it was a mistake I wouldn't expect a musician to make.
If James isn't a musician then fair enough. Equally, though, I'm
surprised to find non-musicians interested in lilypond (pleased though -
the more the merrier - I just didn't expect it).

Sorry again,
Wol



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