On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > - if a music function affects a note, it always begins with \add, > or ends with an \...After; if a music function does not affect a > note (i.e. \clef) then it doesn't change.
Hm. There's something to it, but i'm not sure if it should be enforced strictly. > - if it affects a note, the name begins with a capital letter, > otherwise it doesn't. (or vice-versa) No, in my opinion this would only increase confusion about the LilyPond spelling. > - if it affects a note, a - is appended to the name, i.e. > \afterGrace- don't like it. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net> wrote: > >> appoggiatura => \addAppoggiatura ? not nice >> clef > > are nouns because they are themselves the notation. > [..] > So I like your original concept of verbifying prefix functions, tempered > by letting those that create notation unattached to any notes, be the nouns > that name the notation. yup, good point. Bottom line: some of the music funtions' names could use some verbifying, but that won't solve a "is that postfix or prefix?" problem in my opinion. cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel