Re: What is the header "texttranslator" for

[David Rogers]

On 5-Jan-2006, at 1:31 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> David Rogers wrote:
>
> > On 3-Jan-2006, at 5:26 PM, Bernard Hurley wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The header field "texttranslator" is mentioned in the Lilypond
> > > documentation for version 2.7.27 but doesn't seem to do anything!
> >
> >
> > Some headers are available but not printed by default. On my  
> > machine,  the default setup is found in
> > .../share/lilypond/2.7.20/ly/titling-init.ly
> >
> > (The text translator must be credit for the person who translated  
> > the  lyrics of a song - I don't know if that was part of your  
> > question or  not.)
>
> If you redefine the functions doing the titling, you use whatever  
> header fields
> you wish, but as far as I can see, Bernard is completely right that  
> texttranslator
> won't be typeset anywhere in the default titling functions, so it's  
> clearly a bug.
> I leave it to others to determine if it should be removed from the  
> manual or added
> in the implementation.

In vocal music, this is a necessary field to have available. I don't  
think it should just be removed.

(I was going to write back saying that "meter" has the same problem  
of not being printed, but I see that it has been fixed at some point  
in the past. Whoever actually fixes this little bug should check that  
there are not other documented header fields being omitted from  
printing.)

David