Am 15. Juni 2018 09:28:05 MESZ schrieb Urs Liska <li...@openlilylib.org>: >Hi Elaine, > > >Am 15.06.2018 um 02:21 schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine: >> >> Actually I think \edmark and \edMarkup (or something along these >> lines) might be the best compromise between the generality of the >> command, expressiveness and practicality. >> >> Urs >> >> >> My $0.02 is that you should spell out \editorialMark. >> >> \edMark is not expressive enough. >> >> We're not in an 8.3 epoch, there is no cost to a few extra letters to > >> say what you really mean. > >OK, good point. >But (also in light of your other post on this thread) it "mark" really >what it is? >I think I'd really be fine with \editorialXXX, but while we're at it we > >should really pick the right term, isn't it? > > From my (limited) understanding of English a mark is not what we're >encoding here. A mark would be a single item that describes or that >points to something. >What we have *is* a descriptive element, but it is not that our command > >inserts an "item that describes something" but our command itself >describes something that is actually included in it. We encode some >music, e.g. { s2 } and describe it as being a "gap" with the attribute >of its reason being damage by ink spill, for example. Or we can say >that >in { c8 [ d e f ] } the Beam "is" an editor's addition. > >Would it be correct to say that we "mark up" some music? From >Merriam-Webster's definition this is totally alien >(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/markup), but isn't this >exactly the meaning of "markup language"? > >If that's correct I think that \editorialMarkup would be fine.
Just to clarify: in \editorialMarkup gap \with { reason = damage } { s2 } the markup would be "gap", s2 would be the "marked up" element and the \with block specifies the markup's attributes. > >What do you think? > >Urs > >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Elaine Alt >> 415 . 341 .4954 "/Confusion is highly underrated/" >> ela...@flaminghakama.com <mailto:ela...@flaminghakama.com> >> Producer ~ Composer ~ Instrumentalist >> >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user