Dear Friends, An updating of the website is mandatory, indeed... and I'm volunteer for an italian translation of the whole! :D
Sr. Maria Ruth osb 2014-03-22 8:54 GMT+01:00 Olivier Berten <[email protected]>: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > >
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