2008/4/30 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:43:59 -0700 > Patrick McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would like to propose that we rename the textual crescendo and >> decrescendo commands to names that are more intuitive and are more >> internally consistent. The current implementation uses the "hairpin" >> commands to revert the "text" commands, but I do not think this >> solution is very intuitive. Here is the list of the commands in >> question: >> >> \setTextCresc >> \setTextDecresc >> \setTextDecr >> \setTextDim >> \setHairpinCresc >> \setHairpinDecresc >> \setHairpinDim > > \set**** must die. It's massively confusing for newbies (and in > more than one case, doc writers). I thought we'd fixed all of > these, but upon investigation it seems that we only did > ly/property-init.ly and not ly/spanners-init.ly > > >> Since hairpins are the default output -- using \< and \> -- shouldn't >> the revert commands indicate that the "textual" (de)crescendo marks >> are being turned off? Maybe we should keep the \set... commands that >> set the alternative behavior (textual crescendos, etc.) and use >> \unset... commands as their opposites. Or we could rename them using >> the on/off method: \textCrescOn, \textCrescOff, etc. > > I prefer on/off. However, I'm not certain whether we want to go > with > \textCrescOn > or > \hairpinCrescOn > (with Off being the opposite, of course) > > We could even go with pairs of: > \crescText > \crescHairpin > > ... actually, I think the last idea is by far the best. Any > objections?
Since the Issue 143 has been fixed, we are now ready to rename this command to... whatever you guys will decide. Cheers, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
