Re: Fixes footnote automatic numbering. (issue 4877041)

[Phil Holmes]

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Subject: Re: Fixes footnote automatic numbering. (issue 4877041)


> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:06:05PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> >    On Oct 15, 2011, at 11:41 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://codereview.appspot.com/4877041/diff/17001/lily/system.cc#newcode251
> >      lily/system.cc:251: Grob *at_bat = footnote_grobs_[i];
> >      (I have no idea what a 'bat' is supposed to mean.)
> >
> >    From American baseball - at bat is the person who will bat.  I find 
> > that
> >    there is not enough baseball lingo in the source, which is a shame, as 
> > it
> >    is the sport par excellence from which all other sports derive their
> >    legitimacy.
>
> By contrast, I feel that our stem collision code is in desperate
> need of some football terminology -- if we tossed in some
> red_flag = 0; yellow_flag = true;   variables into there, we could
> really have some fun!
>
> inb4 "that's not real football"
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

ITYM "red card" and "yellow card".  Flags are so gridiron.


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Phil Holmes