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Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:11:55 +0100 (CET) |
> > Only a native speaker can say that :-) Honestly, it's very easy to
> > intermix them during fast typing. I don't say that the difference
> > between those two words is problematic, just that it unnecessarily
> > increases the probability of a typo.
>
> I respectfully disagree. I've never mistyped either word in a
> LilyPond file.
Congratulations! I do it regularly.
> should be asking for the elimination of the "\" symbol? And how
> many times have I seen the query ". . . Score.RehersalMark
> . . . doesn't work." Should we change that to "R-mark" to avoid
> typos?
This is harmless compared to `acciaccatura' :-)
> Apostrophes ("'") are a problem too: it's hard to see them when
> you're looking for errors; let's replace them with something clear
> like "*".
It seems that you should write your scores with MusicXML... This
greatly increases verbosity...
To be serious: Do you see a necessity for a basic LilyPond command to
be an abbreviation of another? Just think of editors which are able
to complete a command with the tab key as soon as you type the first
few letters (Emacs, for example). In case of \time vs. \times, you
always have to add a final `s' or select between two choices.
It would be interesting to do a survey whether there are other
commands belonging into this category. I favour to rename them all to
disambiguate.
Werner
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- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, Erik Sandberg, 2007/01/02
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, stk, 2007/01/02
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, Trevor Bača, 2007/01/02
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, stk, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, stk, 2007/01/05
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- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, Frédéric Chiasson, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, stk, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, stk, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, Mats Bengtsson, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, stk, 2007/01/05
- Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question, Frédéric Chiasson, 2007/01/06
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