RE: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

[Fairchild]

Han-Wen -

I certainly do defer to your judgment because it is based in experience and
knowledge.

The incompatible quote thing is a real annoyance begging a clean solution.
Now if the wrong quote is inserted, Lily derails and spews seemingly
irrelevant errors.  When document snippets must be subtly modified, that's
bad.

I can only propose, hoping to generate responsible thought and disposition.

Maybe a cautionary black box notice in the documents is necessary?  It
certainly would have saved me hours of debugging.

Maybe cleaner use of quotes in the documentation would help?

Maybe better error trapping is possible?

Maybe a document section listing the various marks Lily recognizes and their
use?

Maybe . . . ?

                                         - Bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:51 AM
To: Fairchild
Cc: 'Bec and John'; address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?


Fairchild wrote:
> Overwhelming and convincing argument.

I would like to see the argument for the opposite, since there are so 
many characters that are alike. We have the n-dash and the em-dash  for 
the hyphen, and unicode (being 31-bit) doubtlessly will have tons of oth 
er similar characters. How do you suggest to go about and find them all? 
What will this gain in clarity of the language definition, and how do 
you propose to deal with ambiguities in the syntax (the high ascii chars 
normally being part of a string.)

In any event, the definition of ' for Scheme (i.e. #   in LilyPond) is 
set by the R5RS standard. We cannot change that.

In short, I think it is bad idea, and I wish people would just trust my 
judgement for once.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:13 PM
> To: Fairchild
> Cc: 'Bec and John'; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?
> 
> 
> Fairchild wrote:
> 
>>    be fixed to accept all single quote characters interchangeably?
> 
> 
> no.
> 
> 


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