Re: Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

[Joe Neeman]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 23:08 +0800, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:03:19PM +0100, Maximilian Albert wrote:
> > Just a few random nitpicks so far (I haven't read the whole thing, though):
> 
> Ok.  Chapter 7 is mostly Carl's domain, but I'll fix most of these
> issues.
> 
> > - The last word in 7.3 must read "ineffective" instead of "inefective".
> > - In the third item in 7.4.11 it should be "E.g." instead of "Eg"
> > after the first sentence.
> 
> Done, although as a general rule I wouldn't fuss about things like
> E.g. vs. Eg in the CG.  (rhyme not intentional)
> 
> 
> > - In the fourth item in 7.4.11, is the call to message() really
> > correct? Shouldn't 'Calculating line breaks...' also be surrounded by
> > quotation marks?
> 
> Done, although I'm wondering about this now.  For example,
> 
> address@hidden:~/svn/lilypond/lily$ grep Calculating *
> minimal-page-breaking.cc:  message (_ ("Calculating line
> breaks..."));
> minimal-page-breaking.cc:  message (_ ("Calculating page
> breaks..."));
> page-turn-page-breaking.cc:  message (_f ("Calculating page and
> line breaks (%d possible page breaks)...",
> paper-score.cc:  message (_ ("Calculating line breaks...") + " ");
> 
> Anybody know what the difference is between
>   message(_
> and
>   message(_f

_f() is like _() plus printf. That is, it allows you to format
arguments.