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

[Adam Good]

Could someone clarify: while hel-arabic.ly has this line that includes
arabic.ly , what are they getting out of this? Some more key signatures and
keyAlterationOrder?

Should all key signatures for the various maqams simply go only into
arabic.ly ?

Adam

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 4:11 AM Mats Bengtsson <matsboxergrand@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
>