Re: Problem with remove bar number/ why I'm not upgrading to the new stable version

[David Kastrup]

David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:

> However, there are often questions that can't be answered in any way
> but to delve into Scheme.  As recently, for example, when a question
> was posed about using \draw-line to make a dashed line instead of a
> solid one.  AFAIK, there's no simple way to do it which you can look
> up in one of the manuals.  The only way to answer the poster's
> question was to rewrite Lily's Scheme code for \draw-line into Scheme
> code for a new command \draw-dashed-line, which Harm and I did.  Maybe
> someday Lily will be enhanced so that no one need "see the gears," but
> in the meantime, that's the stopgap solution these questions will
> receive.  (Unless they are to remain unanswered, that is.)

Of course, there is a danger that solutions like that are floated on the
lists and don't actually make it into LilyPond as readily available
functionality.

-- 
David Kastrup