Re: Allows slurs to break at barlines. (issue 7424049)

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On 20 mars 2013, at 09:26, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:

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>> 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?
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> 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