Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:20:43AM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> To me, a Grand Input Syntax "fixing" of LilyPond, would amount to
> creating a syntax that strictly separates parsing and interpretation.
> This implies not only rethinking  a lot of syntax, but also it means
> letting go of some of the flexibility and conciseness of the current
> format.

Ok, consider one single "fix".  Change:
  {  \[ c'2     d' \]  }
into:
  {     c'2 \[  d' \]  }

The old "enclosing" method of spanners (i.e. beams and slurs in
lilypond 1.x) is almost completely deprecated now.  Why not take
the next step and fix ligatures as well?  That would make the
syntax more consistent.

- Graham