Re: Issue 37 - new work

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 04:18:16PM -0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Graham Percival
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >  lilypond -p 0 my_file.ly    % for quick work
>> >  lilypond -p 2 my_file.ly    % for a draft to print out
>> >  lilypond -p 9 my_file.ly    % for the final score
>>
>> I think most of these will go unused, as very few people will know how
>> and when to tune them.  Having configurable settings is neat, but it's
>> far more important to do the right thing by default in 95% of the
>> cases.
>
> That's actually precisely why I'm suggesting a
>  -p X
> option.  People (generally) aren't going to look into the depths

that's even worse, because people that will want to use this option
won't even understand what it does.  It's the same time of idiocy of
Windows' and IE settings: do you want low, medium or high for hardware
acceleration, internet privacy.

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