Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2916 in lilypond: Doc : NR Document \hide command

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Comment #1 on issue 2916 by address@hidden: Doc : NR Document \hide command
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2916

I think this is issue 2870, and the referenced message thread is about an  
outdated proposal where there were still both \hide and \hidden proposed.   
Documenting \hide should likely take the effects of issue 2883 into account  
which will allow also writing \hide Staff.TimeSignature when needed.

The same part of the change allowing for this syntax, however, will also  
require changing \footnote and \tweak syntax (as they can't use optional  
symbols before strings any more or vice versa).  Because of the change of  
footnote syntax will only leave compilable documentation if the German  
translation has been merged, this depends on the post-2.16.1 translation  
branch merge into master.

Huh.  I'd try breaking this increasingly awkward dependency chain by  
cherry-picking the German translations into staging ahead of time, but the  
required convert-ly run would likely complicate the merge.  Unless one runs  
convert-ly on the translation branch before merging.  But then both merge  
parents will be different from the common ancestor, and so there will be no  
automatic merge conflict resolution.

It is really probably best if we can get the translation branch moved to  
2.17 soon.