Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes: > Am 20.04.2017 um 17:59 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> I’m wondering: what are the historic and functional differences >>> between vocalName and instrumentName? >> vocalName/shortVocalName are fallbacks when neither instrumentName nor >> shortInstrumentName are set. That's all seemingly. >> >>> Are there any? Does anybody have a clever policy when to use >>> vocalName? Does anybody use it at all? >> Looks rather pointless to me, to be honest. > > They were announced as a change in v2.2: > <http://lilypond.org/website/misc/announce-v2.2> with the description > ‘Voice names, for vocal lines, have been added. They are similar to > instrument names. They can be set by defining |vocalName| and > |vocNam|.’ > – which doesn’t tell us how they’re _similar_, but different from > instrument names. > In vocal scores there is a convention of displaying the name of a > singer upon entry as a markup above the staff, sometimes in a special > font (sans serif, narrow). Now, if Instrument_name_engraver actually > did such a thing that would be a very good feature, and a sensible use > for vocalName.
As far as I can see, they are completely identical in behavior to instrumentName. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
