On 20 mars 2013, at 09:26, Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote:
> > m...@mikesolomon.org > >> I completely agree. It's just that "fake" in English means false or >> counterfeit. It needs another word, just don't know what yet. unchained? >> free? > > At the risk of prolonging the bike-shedding, here's my take. For me, the key > consideration is to provide an easily remembered name that can be internally > vocalised as the slur is typed in. And we need a user-centric (not > developer-centric) word - what is the user's conception of such a slur? Also > we need an attribute of the end point of the slur, not the slur as a whole, > since it is to be applied to an end point. The word should fit comfortably > as an adjective in the phrase "xxx slur start/end" as "free slur end" to aid > vocalisation. > > I'm not keen on \broken or \fake; they have other incorrect and unhelpful > connotations. \detached or \free are better. Others might be \floating, > \hanging, \loose, \dangling, although these are a bit long. Of all the > suggestions so far I prefer \free. > > Trevor If we're not going to refer to unfinished bridges in Scotland (tear), I like \free and \loose. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel