"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:38 PM > > >> "m...@mikesolomon.org" <m...@mikesolomon.org> writes: >> >>> On 20 mars 2013, at 09:26, Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >> >> \free sounds connected to garbage collection. > > Not to a LilyPond user - that's development-think and not really > relevant to a user interface. > > See this piece of string? Take the free end and ... > See this slur? Take the free end and ... > > \free still seems the best to me - ticks all the boxes.
It's not really free since it can only occur in particular places and needs to get matched to other spanner ends in a rather rigid way. What about \extra ? It's similar to \free but sounds like a more likely candidate for removal (when unfolding). >> \span is already taken by Scheme. \split seems available. It's a tiny >> bit nicer than broken in that >> a) it's not the same "broken" as in line break where the pieces stay >> next to each other >> b) it's not the same "broken" as in broken clocks >> c) "split" suggests somewhat more that the pieces go separate ways > > Only when applied to the slur as a whole. But we want something > that applied to a slur ending. The end can't be split. Yup, that's why it's just a tiny bit nicer than "broken". >> What kind of word would people pick when describing a score on the >> phone? For a single occurence, "interrupted" is likely a good >> candidate, but five times in a row something catchier would likely >> win. Probably "split" has a slightly better chance than "splice". > > Ditto, "At the start of the second alternative, we have an extra slur start, the slur ends on beat 2, a phrasing slur starts on beat 3 and at the end of the alternative, there is an extra slur end". Huh. Works better with "detached". Probably worth a night's sleep or two. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel