Re: Mailing Subject Format Inquiry

[Steven White]

For my part I just move everything to a lillypond-user folder now and its 
equivalent to me.  I was fairly busy yesterday and unable to reply, but the 
thread has seen a lot of activity so. Let me try.

The first two

From Carl:
> You may want to consider having a chord and tweaking the note head of one of
> the notes (i.e., you can have a 1/4 note chord and tweak the note head of
> one of the notes to be a 1/2 note head.)

Thank you for this it is the solution I finally took.  I would not have 
thought about it on my own.


> Not sure exactly what you want here, but Chopin's
> piano music is full of chords containing notes of
> differing duration.  There's an extended example of
> how to deal with them in the Learning Manual.  Have
> a look at section 4.5.3 Real music example to see
> if that helps solve your problem.
>
> Trevor

Also a big help.  I have most of the source now.  Planning on reviewing it 
Friday before I start back on the work. I have recived got several ideas on 
better methods for marking off sections of music.  I will look in to them 
over the weekend and post some feed back on each.

I missed a few emails in this thread so I switched Thunderbird to threaded 
view. It doesn't bug me to use multiple folders, But it can get rather 
clunky.  Graham brings up a good point about screen size.  I work on a 17 
inch laptop most of the time which I regularly hook up to a 22inch LCD 
screen when in my lab.  So, to me screen space isn't an issue and I often 
forget about people who need to work with larger fonts or prefer to check 
email on smaller devices phones/netbooks etc.

procmail is not a bad idea. I am an IMAP user so I will have to think about 
it.  The length of this thread actually makes me wonder if just writing a 
thunderbird extension would be worth the time.  I'm still in the camp that I 
prefer the list name appended to the subject.  I think it makes the emails 
look less personal, but that doesn't mean everyone should be forced to use them.

Steven







On 2/16/10 8:26 PM, Colin Campbell wrote:
> Peter Wright wrote:
> > I've noticed this for a while with lilypond-user - like you, it's one
> > of the minority of the mailing lists I'm on that *doesn't* use the
> > subject prefix convention, so it's much less easy to do an
> > eyeball-filter/scan as you describe.
> >
> > Colin's suggestion of filter rules to put things in different folders
> > is fine, but that approach just doesn't work too well for me. I prefer
> > to read (or at least scan) everything as it comes in - if the email's
> > automatically sent off to another folder, I find I can just forget to
> > check that folder.
> Just had a look at the options available in TB rule-triggered actions:
>
> Move message to
> Copy message to
> Forward message to
> Reply with template
> Mark as read ( left unread by default)
> Add star
> Set priority to
> Tag message
> and others.
>
> You can probably set up quite a sophisticated filtering system with a
> few mouse clicks: have some messages go to a folder (the folder name
> gets bolded while it contains unread mail, which is the visual cue to
> look in the folder), a subset of those messages could light up in a
> category relevant colour, others get copied to folder 2, still others
> get forwarded and deleted. The whole thing would become a very fast way
> of scanning your mail for noteworthy (oops, I meant LilyPond!) related
> stuff.
>
> HTH
> Colin
>
>
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