Re: bug in german manual

[Jacques Menu]

> Le 18 août 2015 à 17:50, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> BB <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> A compromise may be to keep \times for "old" lilypond users but omit
>> it from the new german versions of the manual in favor of
>> \tuplet. There are some good reasons to use \tuplet - at least for
>> me. I do not want to stress the ethymology of the meaning of "times"
>> in this context.
> 
> Oh, that's "offene Türen einrennen" as it would be called in German.
> It's what has been done in the English manual quite a while ago and
> naturally the German translation is slated to follow suit.
> 
> It's just that the German translation is outdated.  When a translation
> becomes outdated, some code passages still tend to be updated
> automatically (this is necessary or they would stop compiling
> altogether), causing the text and the examples to drift apart.
> 
> The German translation has not really been updated for more than a year.
> It's more or less stuck at 2.16 or even late 2.14.  We just had a
> volunteer starting to look at the translation; maybe stuff will get
> better soon.
> 
> So there is really no disagreement over whether \times should mostly be
> removed from the manual: that's already been done in the English manuals
> quite a while ago.  The German documentation just has to catch up, and
> the simple-minded proposal of just replacing \times by \tuplet without
> changing anything else would create a wrong rather than just outdated
> manual entry.  So it seems saner to leave that replacement for the time
> when the translation is going to be updated.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
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