Re: OT: pagenumber

[Blöchl Bernhard]

I know that thing with "read carefully" and RTFM very well and read a 
lot of programming manuals as I was active working in that field - as I 
was active ...

You refer to the section
" ...
Note the occurrence of hash signs, (#), in two different places – as 
part of the Boolean value before the t or f, and before value in the 
\set statement. So when a Boolean is being entered you need to code two 
hash signs, e.g., ##t.
.."

But please do not forget that the manual is not addressed to programmers 
in first place but simple minded users like me. As a simple minded user 
I am only just interested how to get it work! At least I would recommend 
to move that section above from "appendix" to "prefix". That would ease 
the use of the manual. By practical experience I know that no one really 
reads a manual (or even a section of a manual) from beginning to end.

A much better solution might be (just as a question/recommendation) not 
to strain a simple minded user like me
with such subtleties. KISS: there must be set two hash signs.


Am 04.03.2016 22:31, schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> Blöchl Bernhard wrote Friday, March 04, 2016 9:11 PM
>
>
> > "false is ##f " really always?
> >
> > Please check
> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/modifying-context-properties
> >
> > Seriously, is this an exception? Should one throw a bug report or may 
> > be
> > a suggestion for harmonization? That would ease the use of lilypond 
> > for
> > simple minded user like me. So a simple minded user is no longer
> > dependent on guesses.
>
> Please read the section you quote more carefully.  In particular the 
> bit that
> says:
>
> "Note the occurrence of hash signs, (#), in two different places – as
> part of the
> Boolean value before the t or f, and before value in the \set
> statement. So when
> a Boolean is being entered you need to code two hash signs, e.g., ##t."
>
> Trevor