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Re: Add a \voicify command (issue 320820043 by address@hidden)


From: Carl Sorensen
Subject: Re: Add a \voicify command (issue 320820043 by address@hidden)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 01:41:26 +0000
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On 4/7/17 2:15 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of David Kastrup"
<address@hidden on behalf of
address@hidden> wrote:

>"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>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 ...

How about 

\voiceOrder 

and 

\defaultVoiceOrder

?

Thanks,

Carl




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