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Re: docs about Rest vertical position


From: Kieren MacMillan
Subject: Re: docs about Rest vertical position
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 07:55:27 -0400

Hi Mats,

> What I miss in the discussion here is the user interface aspect and the ease 
> of use. At least for a less experienced LilyPond user, the c''8\rest has a 
> very intuitive meaning of "a rest placed where you would place the c''", 
> whereas \tweak as a general concept requires much more higher level of 
> LilyPond competence and even if you do pattern matching, you have to figure 
> out what the argument 1 means, what the unit is and if positive or negative 
> values are up or down.

That's exactly what I was referring to in my email response to Martín.  =)

> I'm not entirely positive to the proposal.

That's exactly why I didn't suggest replacing the existing documentation, but 
rather augmenting it.  =)

Cheers,
Kieren.


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