templates and "official" styles

[Graham Percival]

On 25-Aug-04, at 12:46 PM, Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> >
> Yes, that's a good idea. It would have helped me much when I just 
> started to learn LilyPond. This would be also useful to review my 
> template generator template (aka document wizard) and apply 
> conventions that can be called 'official'. (However I must note that 
> using lily4jedit's document wizard generating any score in the 
> structure of these templates is approximately takes 10 seconds :-) )

The question of an "official" LilyPond style comes up every so often.
(ie something like "always begin with a \version string, then
the \headers.  Violinx should be written as violinOne, violinTwo, etc")

I used to like the idea, but now I've moved into the "don't care; do 
whatever
you want, as long as it compiles" camp.  However, if there was interest
in it, I wouldn't mind including a section on "official" templates / 
style
stuff.  With a note that these are suggestions; like all coding styles, 
there's
no real "right" answer.  (apart from two-space tabs.  That's definitely 
the
right answer.  ;)

Anyway, shall I bring this up on lilypond-user?  Or is there some 
reason why
the Lilypond Project doesn't want to include Official Style Guidelines 
(tm) ?

Cheers,
- Graham