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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions
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Mark Polesky |
Subject: |
Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:57:02 -0700 (PDT) |
David Kastrup wrote:
> In short, we are going down a road now where any
> user-visible improvement (for which the necessity is
> clear) will become increasingly painful to do for both
> developers and users.
>
> Since obviously I am alone with this opinion among the
> developers, I would suggest polling the users on the
> Lilypond user list whether they think this change a step
> in the right direction and desirable for 2.14.
>
> After all, they will be affected most.
I just want to state (for the record), that I think the
points David has raised are important ones. I didn't want
to start a war here (and I don't think I did), but I wanted
to expose and confront what I saw as a problem. And now,
thanks to David's eloquence, I think we all see the problem.
I think this is a good time to rethink how LilyPond uses the
\markup command. Perhaps the code is too casual in this
respect? It would be nice instead to have a more semantic
command vocabulary to replace top-level markups, for
example:
\alternateVerse
\footnote
\dialogue
\stageDirections
...or whatever. Then, \markup could be used really as an
un-semantic backup command for cases when nothing else fits.
Personally, I think \footnote would be a good place to
start.
On the topic of this actual thread, I have a patch all ready
to go -- http://codereview.appspot.com/2505041/ -- but I'm
in no real rush, and I'm happy to wait for everyone to
converge on a realistic proposal for a long-term solution,
even if it's totally different. So let me know what you
guys think I should do with my patch.
Thanks.
- Mark
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, (continued)
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Trevor Daniels, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Trevor Daniels, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions,
Mark Polesky <=
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Graham Percival, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Valentin Villenave, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Valentin Villenave, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/14