Re: 3648 – revolution revisited

[Janek Warchoł]

2014-07-08 8:11 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>
> which has the side effect of working fine in \relative mode without the
> need to employ make-relative.  You don't want spaces to have an effect
> here.  It's not clear what they would even mean here when they did.
>
>> However, it would be great for consistency and automatisation of
>> writing music if it could work. Which would mean to forbid any spaces
>> or line breaks between pitch and duration, if they belong to the same
>> note, and interpret them as two notes if there is any space or line
>> break inbetween.
>> I don’t see any problem in that with normal input, whereas in other
>> cases like music functions the space might be necessary.
>> What do you think?
>
> We don't want space to be significant between separate syntactical
> entities.  Particularly not for automatisation of writing music which
> becomes awfully tricky if you have to keep track of writing spaces.

I fully second David here. There was a huge discussion about this
feature and it wouldn't get accepted if c 2 was interpreted
differently than c2, it would be too tricky.  Imagine all the new
users getting completely confused.

best,
Janek