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?
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Br. Samuel
(R. Padraic Springuel)
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