Re: Make several special characters with or without backslash "non-special" (issue 12432043)

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/8/14  <address@hidden>:
> I don't really agree.  staccato is -. so it seems natural for me to have
> staccatissimo as -! (I mean, it was -| before).  In addition, ' and ,
> are slanted in most fonts and that does not really match the visuals of
> staccatissimo.
>
> I crosschecked with the parser and it would not object to either.  The
> only argument _for_ such a change would be more visual similarity rather
> than mnemonic value and that rules out -, pretty definitely.  One could
> talk about -' at most.  It would be sort of a nuisance to change that
> including all documentation again but there would be no technical
> problem doing that.

Hmm.
would there be a technical problem to have /both/ -! and -' as
shorthands for staccato?

Janek