Re: going to the next level

[Valentin Villenave]

2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme <address@hidden>:

> Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't
> think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more
> confident about it: it was more a coming-together of the things I'd
> already learned. 'NR 6.3 Building complicated functions' was something I
> referred to a lot, and the command index. One slightly hard thing was
> that to find the page on options I can give to spanners I had to follow
> the chain 1.8 Text -> 1.8.1 Writing text -> Text spanners -> 5.4.7 Line
> styles -> 5.4.5 Spanners. The 'Text spanners' section just links to
> TextSpanner in the IR, which was much less useful to me; it would be
> great if it linked to 5.4.5 directly, and I will write a patch to that
> effect unless someone beats me to it.

Well, it hadn't occurred to me to put such a link here, since the
Spanners per se are merely lines more than text... What kind of
options are you referring to? I can't really see how we could link
from 1.8.1.3 to 5.4.5 without going through 5.4.7...

Regards,
Valentin