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

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I am not really enthused about the involved upheaval, but that would
indeed be a possible change.

-- 
David Kastrup