Suggestion: having point-and-click turned off by default

[Sándor István]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Jonas Nyström wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Right now, the resulting .ps contains link information for the noteheads,
> pointing to the row and charachter in the source .ly file (for example
> "textedit://c:/test.ly:14.2.2").

IMHO it is rather nasty having this feature turned on by default. The 
resulting pdf will have a lots of embedded local file paths, which will 
cause pop-ups when viewing the pdf file on another machine. This is a 
rather unexpected side-effect.

It did really surprise me when I first ran lilypond on an experimental 
input file. I didn't bother to run over the pdf with a mouse (I prefer not 
to use the mouse), so I didn't even notice it until one of my friends 
brought my attention to it.

After some googling I did find a proposed solution:

#(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)

or:

$ lilypond -dno-point-and-click file.ly

Unfortunately none of these works with my version (2.8.7 from the debian 
testing tree), I guess I should do an upgrade.

So, all this said, it was a rather unexpected behavior :) and I guess it 
would be better having it turned off by default. (you know, the "Rule of 
Least Surprise" ;) )

Maybe this should have been sent to the devel list.

regards
Istvan