Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Urs Liska]

Am 27.04.2015 um 08:16 schrieb Michael Hendry:
> > See
> > https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/573
> >
> > In that wish I asked if it is useful or just a personal use case.
> > So anybody who wants to use indented lines for such cases might add a 
> > comment there (to "upvote" it).
>
> I have added the following comment on GitHub:
>
> I agree that the loss of user-intended indentation is a problem with 
> Frescobaldi's format feature, but I don't think this is a complete 
> solution.
> As I understand it, the idea is that the %/ combination signifies that 
> the _following_ line is to be given one extra ration of indentation, 
> so code entered thus...
>
> a b c d
> b c d e %/
> c d e f
> d e f g
>
> ...becomes...
>   a b c d
>   b c d e %/
>     c d e f
>   d e f g
> ...with the fourth line dropping back to Frescobaldi's default 
> indentation.
>
> This means that every line that is to be indented will have to be 
> preceded by %/, and that there is no way of forcing double indentation.
>
> How would you propose switching off the %// indentation if it isn't 
> automatically switched off in following bars?

Thanks for the comments. I think they are partially valid and partially 
not, but that would become obvious when someone (maybe me) starts 
working on it. Anyway it's good they're documented.

Urs

> Michael