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Manual: "bugs" section
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Manual: "bugs" section |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:33:55 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> Some notation elements have a little "bugs" section, like this one for
> micro tones:
> ---
> There are no generally accepted standards for denoting three quarter
> flats, so LilyPond's symbol does not conform to any standard.
> ---
>
> IMO this isn't really a bug. A bug is something like "our current slur
> code sometimes produces ugly results. This will be fixed at some
> point, but not in the near future" (paraphrased from the 1.x manuals).
> Since there aren't any standards for three quarter flats, I'd say that
> this warning is a... well, a warning. Not a bug. :)
>
> Actually, I like that word. (when I began writing this email, I didn't
> know what to call a non-bug thing that we needed to mention in the
> manual)
>
> Could we add a @refwarning tag (like @refbug and @seealso) ? There are
> some things that we _should_ draw attention to (such as this case, or
> the MIDI note about using sidestick instead of rim shot), but which
> aren't actually bugs.
Maybe the Bugs header can be changed into something broader, eg.
"Notes" or "Problems"
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen