On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:28:02AM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: > Graham Percival schrieb: >> Yes, this is planned. It's been on my list of discussions to >> introduce when the website/build stuff is finished, for about two >> months now. > > Sorry to interrupt, but what's wrong with prefix notation?
Nothing necessarily, but a mixture of prefix and postfix is confusing. I mean, consider this: c8([\f\[ \dynamicUp d--\harmonic\cr)-\startTrillSpan \slurUp e](\stopTrillSpan\] f\!) Which notes does each element of notation affect? Granted, this is a confusing example... but if we standardized on either postfix or prefix notation, it would be simple. Everything from c8 to d affects the C, everything from d to e affects the D, etc. (shifted accordingly if we used prefix) > I mean, we code and read music from left to right, so > it seems nore natural to me to have the command changing > the behaviour of a note in front of it. Well, -> changes the articulation of a note, \mf changes the dynamics of the note... why should things like \harmonic or \makeRed (if somebody invented one) come *before* the note, rather than *after* it? Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
