Re: The hel-arabic.ly file story...

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please note that the proposed new version of hel-arabic.ly internally 
contain a line that includes arabic.ly, which means that the end user 
only has to do

\include "hel-arabic.ly"

just as before. Hopefully this resolves your concern.

   /Mats

On 2023-01-11 16:02, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > The other modifications are useless, they simply make hel-arabic
> > dependent on arabic.ly.  But hel-arabic.ly is supposed to be an
> > independent file from other ly files.
> This doesn't make sense.  `hel-arabic.ly` is part of the LilyPond core
> files.  If someone uses a recent version of LilyPond, both
> `hel-arabic.ly` and `arabic.ly` are *always* present.  *Of course* it
> should share the code with `arabic.ly`!  Our goal is to improve
> maintainability, and avoiding duplicated code is definitely such an
> improvement.
>
>
>      Werner