Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net> writes: > Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes: > >> Let's have a look at verbifying music functions. >> [and special-cases that look just like music functions to the user] > > Most pre-fix functions do seem to be verbs expressing what we want LilyPond > to do to the following music. The exceptions > >> appoggiatura => \addAppoggiatura ? not nice > >> clef > > are nouns because they are themselves the notation. > > The implementation is that \appogiatura transforms the following music into > an appogiatura, but we think of the appogiatura as the main concept, and > the pitches describing the appogiatura. > > Similarly the \clef "treble_8" > > The ones with obvious changes to verbs, really should be verbs to help > us remember that they do something to the following music > >> balloonText => \addBalloonText
I think that those commands basically retaining their last argument with extras could be \withBalloon \withFootnote \withTag \withTweak ... but I am not particularly convinced that this really makes things easier for people. > I would go so far as > > bookOutputName => setBookOutputName Actually, I have code allowing \bookOutputName = ... to be used (\bookOutputName itself then referencing it). It just does not make all that much sense without a few other changes in music functions. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
