RE: What's the least input into a score to get midi output added?

[Sven Axelsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: den 29 juli 2005 10:51
> To: Fairchild
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: What's the least input into a score to get midi 
> output added?
> 
> Fairchild wrote:
> > Overwhelming and convincing argument.
> 
> I would like to see the argument for the opposite, since there are so 
> many characters that are alike. We have the n-dash and the 
> em-dash  for 
> the hyphen, and unicode (being 31-bit) doubtlessly will have 
> tons of oth 
> er similar characters. How do you suggest to go about and 
> find them all? 
> What will this gain in clarity of the language definition, and how do 
> you propose to deal with ambiguities in the syntax (the high 
> ascii chars 
> normally being part of a string.)
> 
> In any event, the definition of ' for Scheme (i.e. #   in 
> LilyPond) is 
> set by the R5RS standard. We cannot change that.
> 
> In short, I think it is bad idea, and I wish people would 
> just trust my judgement for once.

Wouldn't that break a lot of existing markup? For instance
having title = "Look "A Quoted String"" in the header.

And how about when we actually want the en- or em-dash?
Now that Lilypond correctly uses the full Unicode character
set I certainly see no reason to arbitrary limit it's use.

I guess the real argument is, clean up the documentation so
that all examples actually work when cut-and-pasted.

-- 
Sven Axelsson