On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 10:58:31PM +0200, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > Le 1 sept. 2012 à 18:25, Graham Percival a écrit : > > > Continuing to brainstorm on the problem of it not being obvious to > > which note a particular \command refers to, what if we used: > > If a prefix music function is consistently named according to some rule > (e.g. a verb, as was proposed), and variables to that other rule, then > the reading problem is solved. ... > That's not a syntax/parser issue, imho.
Sure; GLISS is about the language as a whole, not just the parser. Let's have a look at verbifying music functions. gperciva@kuro:~/src/lilypond (master) $ grep "=$" ly/music-functions-init.ly | cut -d \ -f 1 I'll add suggested names for that list. The As mostly look good. acciaccatura => \addAcciatura ? not nice addInstrumentDefinition addQuote afterGrace => \addAfterGrace ? not nice allowPageTurn alterBroken appendToTag applyContext applyMusic applyOutput appoggiatura => \addAppoggiatura ? not nice assertBeamQuant assertBeamSlope autochange % so far most of the music functions are already verbs, although % I'm not wild about changing the remaining ones to be verbs. So % maybe it would be good to have a few exceptions to the "music % functions are verbs" idea. balloonGrobText => \addBalloonGrobText balloonText => \addBalloonText bar => \addBar ; maybe special-case it? barNumberCheck => \addBarNumberCheck ; maybe special-case it? bendAfter bookOutputName % special-case to remain as-is? bookOutputSuffix % special-case to remain as-is? breathe % it's true that the word "balloon" can be a verb in English, but % that's fairly rare usage, i.e. "his stomach ballooned after % eating Thanksgiving dinner". Similarly, "book him" can be a % verb, but "book" is not used as a verb in this context. clef compoundMeter crossStaff cueClef cueClefUnset cueDuring cueDuringWithClef % as it happens, none of the Cs are verbs. (again, words such as % "cue" can be both a verb and a noun, but the thing that a % conductor does is a verb-cue, whereas the thing in the score is % a noun-cue.) However, I think it would be really awkward to % change to something like \addClef. I won't go through the rest of the music functions right now, but I think that the rule for naming music functions needs to be complicated than previously thought. A few alternate rules spring to mind: - if a music function affects a note, it always begins with \add, or ends with an \...After; if a music function does not affect a note (i.e. \clef) then it doesn't change. - if it affects a note, the name begins with a capital letter, otherwise it doesn't. (or vice-versa) - if it affects a note, a - is appended to the name, i.e. \afterGrace- As with previous brainstorming lists, I'm deliberately not filtering out bad ideas. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
