Re: Doc updates from NEWS files

[Graham Percival]

On 11-Apr-06, at 4:36 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

> The List
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> ** [2.6] Newly created staves and lyric lines, can be put in any
> vertical order, by setting alignBelowContext or alignAboveContext
> properties in the newly created context. An example of the use of this
> is in input/regression/alignment-order.ly. [It's hard to say if this
> needs to be documented--the only place it seems to belong is 4.4./4.5,
> but I think it would just confuse matters. ]

Whoops, this comment didn't get updated.  This should go in, probably 
in chapter 9 Changing defaults.  They might be used in the templates, 
if we get a volunteer to update those.

> ** [2.6] Lines, such as glissandi or Text-spanner lines, can have 
> arrows
> at the end [Where does this information exist? It needs to be 
> documented
> somewhere, but where?

IMO this should be in the Program reference.

>  A couple of questions on -user lately lead me to
> wonder if we need a section about spanners and lines, simply because
> there are so many useful tweaks common to all. This is a bit like the
> question I had about tuning slurs and ties.]

These are two separate issues.  The arrow'd lines are part of the NEWS 
update project; explaining useful tweaks about lines and slurs are part 
of "new docs for chapter 10".  Not to discourage anybody from offering 
to do both of these.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham