"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > David, you wrote Thursday, April 06, 2017 4:54 PM > >> You could try separate commands \voicifyUp and \voicifyDown . I am not >> sure whether or not \voicify should not be \voices or \voicing or >> \voicings instead, possibly making for nicer compounds like that. >> >> I mean, something like >> >> \voices 1,3,4 ... > > Although you later argued cogently against compounds like \voicesUp I > think \voices is a better choice than \voicify anyway, simply because > it expresses its operation more clearly (not sure what meaning the word > "voicify" would trigger in the mind - in Google it enables voice dictation; > in Twitter it applies a filter, for example). > > In other words \voices stands better than \voicify on its own merits.
One argument in favor of \voicify would be that \voices sounds like setting a state rather than modifying a music expression. It would be a bit more talkative to say something like \withVoices 1,3,4 << \\ \\ >> rather than \voices 1,3,4 << \\ \\ >> So I'm not completely happy with \voices though all in all it's probably still my favorite. I did not come up with "voicify" all on my own: the internal function for doing << \\ \\ >> was named like that before, so I just added a user-level command using the same verbiage. If we ever add a command for changing the default, \defaultVoices ... would definitely be less awkward than \defaultVoicify ... or \defaultVoicification ... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
