Re: Notation Reference typo

[Eyolf Østrem]

On 16.12.2008 (05:14), Graham Percival wrote:
> 
> Yes, lilypond can read strings just fine without the #, but as a
> matter of doc policy, we're supposed to use the # everywhere for
> scheme arguments.

Ugly, ugly. This is one of my main gripes with LP, this damned freedom of
choice which creeps in everywhere and makes everything more complicated,
not easier, because it blurs one's conception of the syntax. So, here, the
#' is optional, whereas elsewhere it isn't. One can leave out everything but
the braces around a music expression -- defaults, defaults everywhere --
but eternal damnation (and a failed file) upon you if you mix the cases
wrongly in a grob property name.

If the '#' isn't needed, why keep it as the thing one has to learn? For
future compatibility? I can understand if a certain unified syntax ('#
before all scheme strings') should be available, for automated tasks, etc,
but I also assume that the optionality of the '#' is there for the benefit
of the user, so is there any good reason why the ordinary, human user
should see the # form at all?

Eyolf

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