Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

[Thomas Morley]

2012/10/26 David Nalesnik <address@hidden>:
> David,
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:42 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> However, there are often questions that can't be answered in any way
>>> but to delve into Scheme.  As recently, for example, when a question
>>> was posed about using \draw-line to make a dashed line instead of a
>>> solid one.  AFAIK, there's no simple way to do it which you can look
>>> up in one of the manuals.  The only way to answer the poster's
>>> question was to rewrite Lily's Scheme code for \draw-line into Scheme
>>> code for a new command \draw-dashed-line, which Harm and I did.  Maybe
>>> someday Lily will be enhanced so that no one need "see the gears," but
>>> in the meantime, that's the stopgap solution these questions will
>>> receive.  (Unless they are to remain unanswered, that is.)
>>
>> Of course, there is a danger that solutions like that are floated on the
>> lists and don't actually make it into LilyPond as readily available
>> functionality.
>>
>
> Certainly.  It happens that a number of these solutions are "one-offs"
> for unusual requests, but sometimes there's a general utility.  If the
> answer is on the lists, it's easy just to refer the poster to that
> thread.  Eventually, of course, solutions like these are lost for
> good.

Hi David (N),

I think the draw-dashed-line-command is worth putting into the source.
If you agree, I will turn it into a patch the next days.

> (For example, there's an email from Mike Solomon I distantly
> remember detailing how something might be centered between staves; I'd
> like to read it again, but I can't find it in the archives any more.)

Do you think of:
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Best-way-to-put-a-system-brace-between-2-staves-td56705.html#a56707
?

Regards,
  Harm