Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?

[Trevor Daniels]

Joram Berger wrote Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:03 PM

> In my opinion, it is more important to make things easy for users (more
> than for developers). And here: x-offset or y-extent would feel more
> consistent. Such things would not be called RIGHT-align, would they?
> There is the constant UP, but in LilyPond code, the command is \stemUp
> for example (and not \stemUP). So there is already a case conversion.
> 
> From the programming point of view, I would keep constants in upper
> case, resulting in this proposal from my side:
> x-offset, y-extent, … (changed)
> #UP, #LEFT, #X, … (as before)
> \stemUp, \slurDown, … (as before)

If this is practical I would support this change.  It would make the naming
of all properties consistently lower-case.

Trevor