Re: sharping naturals

[Thomas Morley]

2015-08-10 13:47 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

>> In my thinking that's absolute crude.

Better wording would have been: strange as strange could be...

>> Though, obviously there are other opinions about that.
>>
>> Patches are always welcome.
>
> But one needs to be warned that they may meet resistance to acceptance,
> so there is some sense in figuring out the other developers' opinions
> before investing a lot of work, at least if one's ultimate goal is the
> inclusion as an integral part of the standard LilyPond distribution.
>
> A somewhat smaller but comparable can of worms is \relative mode.
> A frequent topic on the mailing list is "how do I make my music
> functions work in \relative mode?" and often answers are not
> straightforward.  Many LSR snippets work only either in absolute mode or
> in relative mode, and not necessarily reliably so.
>
> So it is pretty much established that the music-based approach comes
> with a healthy load of problems, and the input language based approach,
> while condensing most of the problems in one place, makes source code
> management a headache because each source code passage comes with its
> own associated input language.

Well, I will not work on such a patch. I already had a hard time to
understand the thinking behind the proposal.

Though, at a lower level one could start adding a snippet to the LSR
so that users can play around with it. Rale mentioned some, but
refused to post links...


Cheers,
  Harm