On Monday, 15 June 1998, Mats Bengtsson writes:
Hi Mats,
[Sorry for the late response, Han-Wen's been off-line last week]
Thanks for the patch, i've put it in.
> What would you think of changing the clef syntax from
> \clef bass;
> into
> \clef \bass;
>
> If you think this is an acceptable change, I'll send a patch
> that makes it easy to customize clef names to your local language.
No, this won't do. Clefs will be identified by the notename that they
indicate, with an optional line-nr argument.
> I still don't see any clear logic on which syntactic elements
> should be escaped with a backslash, and guess this change would
> rather make the syntax more uniform.
The backslash is used for:
* Keywords
* Instantiation of a formerly defined variable
Jan.
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