RE: partial rearrangement done, technical problems

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham (late cc to list)

> GENERAL DISCUSSION
>
> - I still like the division of musical notation /
> instrument-specific? No?  Nobody else?

Well, yes - at least one other likes it.  But only if every
sub-section within it concerns an actual instrument, and the
list of instruments is complete (at least as far as the
instrument-specific parts of LP are concerned).  So the
sub-sections should not include Chord Names nor Ancient
Notation - these should be sections in "1. Musical
Notation".

I don't like a the name "Other instrument-specific".  Just
drop it and promote Orchestral Strings and Bagpipes to sub-
sections.  This section then becomes easily extensible in
the future to include further instruments that also have
instrument-specific notation.

Why do I prefer it?  Well, it separates out those parts
of the manual which are of interest only if you are writing
for that particular instrument.  Others can simply ignore
sections that don't concern them.  In effect it shortens
the manual without removing anything.

> - Assuming that the technical issues are solved,
> how do you want these
> merged subsections to look?  Specifically,
> consider 1.2.3. Displaying
> rhythms.  There's
>
> Time signature
> - @commonprop
> - @seealso
> - @refbugs
> Upbeats
> - @refbugs
> Unmetered music
> - @refbugs
> ...
> Automatic note splitting
> - @refbugs
> - @seealso
>
>
> Do you like this format, or would you prefer one
> @commonprop at the end
> of each page?  Do you want links to LSR stuff at
> the end of each
> portion, or just one set of links at the bottom
> of the page?

Assuming that the links to each of the sub-sections
will take you to that sub-section within the page and
not the top of the page, then I prefer this format.
The bottom of the page is too far away for all the
links to be there.
>
> ... and are you guys _sure_ you prefer the manual
> like this?

Yes.  Although I would prefer a click on, for example,
"1.2 Rhythms" to return a monster page containing all
the contained sub-sections rather than just the TOC for
that section.  This would permit a more comprehensive
search for anything that was to do with rhythms but
which did not fall obviously in any of the sub-sections,
for example hemiola (which actually appears nowhere).
If this is technically possible and does not give
rise to serious maintenance issues maybe this could
be extended to chapters too.
>
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

Trevor (D)