Re: usage example for pure-unpure container sought

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 8 oct. 2021 à 11:45, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :

>>> I've found some minor documentation and formatting issues in NR
>>> section 5.5.6, "Unpure-pure containers", which I'm going to fix.  In
>>> general, however, there is a serious problem with the example in this
>>> subsubsection, as documented in issue #3512:
>>> 
>>>   https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/3512
>>> 
>>> The given example no longer works, or rather, the proposed solution to
>>> the formatting problem is useless because LilyPond already does the
>>> right thing automatically.  [...]
>> 
>> Don't waste your time with this.  The whole point of my pure project
>> driven by tied accidentals is to eliminate unpure-pure containers
>> and replace them with something more workable and user-friendly.  In
>> particular, I expect the need for user-written pure callbacks to
>> become much more rare.
> 
> Thanks.  It's not clear to me what I should do now.  Shall the whole
> subsubsection simply be removed?  Shall a warning be added that this
> section is under construction?

Let's leave it as-is for now as it reflects the current state, even though the 
example is moot. I'll revamp the CG material, but probably delete this NR 
section if direct use of purity becomes close enough to an internal detail.