The website should be updated... there is (for 5 years!) a one argument
function: \setfirstannotation{}https://mail.gna.org/public/gregorio-users/2009-08/msg00000.html Yours, Olivier 2014-03-22 4:47 GMT+01:00 Br. Samuel Springuel <[email protected]>: > I've been playing with some scores and have to say that I find it slightly > annoying that the command \gresetfirstlineaboveinitial{}{} has two > arguments, both of which are always exactly the same. > > Okay, so that isn't exactly how it works. Reading the detailed > information on GregorioTeX on the website I now understand just why there > are two arguments: one controls the actual text that appears, the other the > positioning of that text. While I think that entering a vertical-offset > via dummy text is round about, I'm willing to admit that it means things > are less fussy for the user (who doesn't have to figure out just how tall > his text is). Besides, if I really want to play with the offset as a > number, I can just use a strut (i.e. a rule with 0 width). > > However, most of the time (at least for me) both arguments are identical. > I think that makes this command a prime candidate for an optional > argument. When the command is called without the optional argument, the > two arguments would be assumed to be identical. When the command is called > with the optional argument, it would behave as it currently does. > > Would anyone else find this to be a useful modification to the command? > > Complicating things, the usual way of specifying optional commands in > LaTeX would have the modified command take the form: > > \gresetfirstlineaboveinitial[vertical_offset_text]{text} > > This would break backwards compatibility for two reasons: > 1) the argument order is reversed > 2) the first argument is in square brackets rather than braces > > Getting around this would require giving the "smart" function a new name. > Would people prefer that to a direct modification of the current command? > -- > ✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝ > Br. Samuel > (R. Padraic Springuel) > > PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >
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