I use lilypond for C16 & C17 polyphonic choral music,
which has a lot of melisma (one syllable sung over lots
of notes). I value the _ symbol for its typing speed and
its readability.
I haven't needed any identifiers with _ in them. Although
it does sound attractive to allow such names, I would hope
that something better than "" could be found for extenders.
I don't know how the lilypond parser works. Can it not
treat _ at the beginning of a word different from _ within
a word?
John.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 10:24 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Request for discussion. What do you think of _ for lyric
> spaces.
>
>
> I am contemplating to junk the current meaning of the underscore in
> lyric mode, since you can get the same effect using quotes.
>
> I was wondering how Real Users would feel about such a change. I
> myself have these thoughts:
>
> PRO: If _ is a normal character, that would bring identifier names
> with underscores in them one step closer (which is a Cool Thing). It
> also makes the behavior of lyric mode somewhat simpler.
>
> CON: Less readable, more typing work. How would we do extenders?
>
>
> (of course, we ignore the non-issue of backwards compatibility.)
>
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