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

[Francisco Vila]

2012/10/25 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Jay Hamilton <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Janek-
>> I'm not going to do that. Here's a few reasons why.
>
> Well, obviously I am rather partial here, but I quite disagree with your
> assessment here.  What you are witnessing on the user list is the
> emergence of "power users", a class of users narrowing the gap between
> users and core developers.  Yes, they juggle with complex material.  But
> that does not mean that things have actually become more complex, but
> rather that they previously would have had to drop the ball.

I strongly agree.

> For the normal user, things have not changed all that much.  Lots of
> typesetting tasks are now done better without user intervention.  The
> documentation is improving quite a bit.  Many operations are becoming
> more streamlined and logical.  Many weird exceptions are gradually
> disappearing, and a lot of things that previously required deep meddling
> with Scheme programming have become much simpler and don't require
> leaving LilyPond itself all that much.

Again, I strongly agree.

>> So in the course of if it's not broken don't fix it. I'm not going to
>> upgrade to the new version. I'm certain that this will render me
>> without help down the road (like for this issue about bar numbers) but
>> the number of things I see from the lily user group that interest and
>> concern them/you lately are rarely anything I have use for or interest
>> in using.

But the contents of the lily user group is made by users like you, and
you as a member have always something to say and participate, and the
level of complexity depends on what users ask and other users answer.
There is not a pre-set level that excludes anybody not interested in
some specific issues. Rather, whatever issues are you interested in,
is what makes the traffic of the users list, not the other way.
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com