templates and "official" styles

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> 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) ?

Because the Lilypond doesn't care what users do. It's more that we
want to have a uniform style so our manual and examples look uniform.
Better that we don't set Official Guidelines, rather, we could present
our style as an option.

FWIW, I always use the emacs standard mode settings, which does 4
space indents. However, the manual does not use standard indents.
2 space indents makes more sense for the space constrained manual.

Maybe we ought to set our standard to two spaces, and move all manual
examples to 2 spaces. Jan? 

 

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