On 7/20/09 3:09 PM, "Mark Polesky" <markpole...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Marc Hohl wrote:
>> Hm, sounds kind of morbid to me, calling a note "dead", but since
>> I am not a native english speaker, I cannot judge this from a neutral
>> point of view.
>> Do you think that there will arise big problems with these commands?
>> I think \deadNotesOn and \deadNote are rather self-explanatory, so I don't
>> believe to confuse potential users.
>
> I prefer "muted" rather than "dead". Though, the LilyPond internals
> can get kind of violent, especially with the Hara_kiri_engraver, and
> ly:grob-suicide! (whose docstring simply says "Kill grob"). I would
> rule that more as a homicide. By the way, I killed a grob once, just
> to watch him die.
grobicide, not homicide, I think! :)
>
> - Mark
> ps. joking aside, I think "muted" is alot better.
>
So perhaps we have
<c \muted e g>4
\muted{ c d e f g}
{
\mutedNotesOn
c d e f g
\mutedNotesOff
c d e f g
}
Or maybe it becomes
{
\mutedOn
c d e f
\mutedOff
c d e f
}
I think I prefer this to \deadNote, \deadNotesOn, \deadNotesOff.
Carl
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