Re: [PATCH] Change default to NOT ignore bass figures on rests

[Carl Sorensen]

On 2/17/10 2:51 PM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Are there any objections to setting ignoreFiguredBassRests to ##f by default?
> Bass figures on rests occur every now and then, and they have a well-defined
> meaning: They are taken relative to the following bass note...
> 
> I don't don't see any reason at all to have this option in the first place.
> I don't know what Han-Wen's reasons were in his commit
> 1ade176d77575b5b04f626c8f3a2adce3bc900f0 (25.09.06 02:58) to add this property
> and set it to ##t by default, but I don't understand it.

As far as I can see, this is likely to have come out of the change Erik
Sandberg made to implement music streams.

The initial bug report is here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2006-09/msg00027.html

Han-Wen had some discussion about the fix on -devel here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-09/msg00126.html

Based on what I've read, I'd say that you're the expert on Figured Bass, and
we should make it do what you think is best.

Changing the default is not that big a deal, I think, as long as it's
documented in NEWS.

But this may require changes to the documentation as well.

Thanks,

Carl