Re: Mailing Subject Format Inquiry

[Steven White]

On 2/15/10 12:06 PM, Colin Campbell wrote:
> Steven White wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just an inquiry, but is there any specific reason why the mailing list
> > doesn't have a prepended subject like [lilypond-user]? I just joined
> > the mailing list to read the solutions as I learn lilypond to help my
> > wife out while she is learning to use the engraver. I was shocked to
> > see the volume of emails that come across and the difficulty to
> > visually tell the origin of an email based on the subject line
> > compared to other mailing list.
>
> It's early-ish ( had the grandkids for sleepover; not a lot of sleeping
> going on!), so I may be missing your point, but I just use the
> filter/rules capability of my email reader. At home, I use Thunderbird,
> so I've created a couple of filters which read the To/cc headers and
> move the messages to folders, oone for lilypond-user and another for
> lilypond-devel.
>
> HTH
>
> Colin

I was mostly just wondering if anyone had opinions on it.  I have about 8 
mailing list archived on this address and they all follow the same format. 
So most of my filters are off the subject line instead of the rest of the 
header. Has the added benefit of making it easier to eye ball the origin of 
an email when looking at a mixed set. But, I am sure there are plenty of 
arguments are against it and I just thought it might be interesting to hear 
a few.

I had plenty of questions to send upstream earlier this week while working 
on recreating some poorly digitized 20th century scans.  I was recreating 
measure excerpts as figures for discussion. However, all but two of them 
have been answered by searching the existing archive. So, I thought I would 
just send this question to start off.

I'm currently working on tweaking the placement of a note in a two voice 
segment.  Working on this Scriabin piece "Two Poems"  There is an odd 
"Chord" in the piece where all the members are not of the same durations.  I 
think to get it in place I need to over ride the direction of the note head 
and move it in to place.

Other then that the only problem I have run in to is a good way to visually 
block off the "Mystic Chords" found in the piece for turning in the final 
analysis of the paper.  I am currently just punting back to photoshop and 
editing lilypond's png output to add " A Square Bracket " around the 
measures that comprise each "Mystic Chord" All of the other notations we are 
easily able to do using \markup or the other editorial notation. I fear this 
falls out of the realm of normal engraving so other then drawing figures in 
postscript I think the wife is out of luck of any automated notation.  If I 
can't come up with a solution in the next couple days I will likely create a 
new thread in search for aid.


Steven A White