Re: Documentation NR 1.6.3 Instrument Names

[Werner]

Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:25:01PM +0000, Werner wrote:
> > In the NR of version "2.11.57" I found:
> 
> Why are you look at that version?  It's an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT
> version, which normal people should not be using.

I used this version in the time it was new.
I looked at the docu aof this version, becaus I once downoaded it completely so
that I had it completely offline with working all cross-references.
For 2.13.11 I didn't find a possibility to download such complete docu-packet.
 
> I sincerely doubt that the docs showed this example with
> commented-out lines.  If it did, this was a temporary issue and
> would have been removed in 2.11.58.

Of course it was shown without the %

> > But this doesn't take effekt for me.
> > The new instrumentname doesn't appear at all.
> > (Only the shortname, if given, that means without the %, see above)
> 
> That's exactly how instrumentName and shortInstrumentName work.
> Please re-read the very first paragraph of that subsection.

I read it. But it's not clear. I my humble opinion the line
\set Staff.instrumentName = #"Second"
is nonsens, if it doesn't take effect at this place!

> It works in 2.13.12, as can be seen in the docs.  I doubt that
> 2.13.11 was any different.

In the 2.11.57 docu there really appeared once „Second“ followed by „two“
instead of two times „two“ in the docu now and in the reality now (and also if I
put \version "2.11.57".

That behavior would more useful for me.

Greetings

Werner