On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I still think we should go with the On, Off commands. I think the Hairpin commands that relate to "decrescendos" (currently, \setHairpinDecresc and \setHairpinDim) are redundant because they perform the same function. That is, they revert to a mode that produces the _same_ type of hairpin: the hairpin produced with \>. IMO, if we go with the On and Off commands, it is clear that the _text_ dynamic commands (set with ***On) are being reverted with ***Off. And it clears up the redundancy issue I mentioned above: there are only two types of hairpins, but there are currently 4 Hairpin commands dedicated to reverting to hairpin mode. Here are the On and Off command pairs that I like: \crescTextOn, \crescTextOff \decrescTextOn, \decrescTextOff \dimTextOn, \dimTextOff \decrTextOn, \decrTextOff What are your opinions? Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
