Re: that acciaccatura issue

[Simon Albrecht]

On 21.08.2016 23:53, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:
> The time and knowledge that you spent on my inquiry indicates a real, and 
> appreciated, desire to assist.
> Several times in the past I have sought aid from this list. Every "trouble" was 
> quickly and clearly resolved.
> Never have I experienced such a kerfuffle as the present.

I’m sorry we have been so insisting on this point. The reasons are about 
the following:
Those answering user questions on the list are, as you know, volunteers 
who invest their free time. Thus it is good practice to show them 
courtesy by providing minimal examples, so they don’t have to narrow 
them down themselves. Sometimes, the cause of a problem may be very 
subtle and if you have to isolate it from 50 lines of unusually 
formatted code, that’s much more tedious than looking at 10 clean lines 
of code, where the problem is easily spotted.
Second: I know that creating a minimal example can be very tedious and 
sometimes drives you nuts, if you start from a big project with 20 
included files in 10 different directories, thousands of lines of code… 
but one learns a lot by doing so, and often the problem becomes obvious, 
so you don’t even have to ask on the list.
In other words, if we insist on minimal examples, we also try to help 
you in helping yourself. That it may seem off-putting is hard to avoid, 
unfortunately…

Best, Simon