Re: spare ties: refman or input/test (was: Re[2]: ly/property-init.ly)

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:24:04 +0200
Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > It looks like Jan created that file in 1.3.41.  My guess is that they 
> > created
> > the file, then added the info to refman (but kept the input/test/ file), and
> > then (for some reason) decided to take it out of the refman.  I think we
> > should have that info in refman and not in input/test.
> 
> I don't think that it is possible to document each and every feature
> in the refman (given the hundreds of properties with their multitude
> of effects). That's what we have the snippets and the internals
> document for.

True, but I think that sparse ties are one feature that's somewhat commonly
desired.  OTOH, I guess that by pointing people to the example page, they're
more likely to look up other things in there.

Cheers,
- Graham