Re: LilyPond concept glossary?

Mark Polesky wrote Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:06 PM
> It would be nice to have some central place that explains some
> "internals" concepts. Here are examples of things that a new 
> developer
> might have to ask about, or perhaps spend a long time 
> disentangling:
>
> grob
> prob
> smob
> output-def
> callback
> simple-closure
>
> It would be nice to have a LilyPond-specific glossary, that users 
> could
> also use. For example, a user might get "glyph" and "stencil" 
> confused.
> I still get "command" "keyword" "identifier" and "variable" 
> confused.
> I still don't know the difference between "parser" and "lexer". 
> You get
> the idea.
>
> Any thoughts?

It would be a helpful addition.  The best place would
be another appendix to the NR.  The only alternative
would be the CG, but this would not be helpful to users.
As it's a glossary, including terms which users don't
ever need would not a problem, I think.  (The LM is too
simplistic for this, the MG is for musical terms and the
AU is not appropriate.)

Maybe Technical glossary would be a better term?

But we need to wait for more comments before taking any
action.

Trevor



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