Re: Mensural style

[Juergen Reuter]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Trevor Daniels wrote:

> > > BTW, the term "accidental style" appears twice in the documentation with a
> > > completely different meaning:
> > > - in 1.1.3, meaning the way how to display and reset accidentals
> >
> > In the detailed explanation they are named "rules" so I propose to
> > always call them "accidental rules" and remove the word "styles" from
> > the whole section.
>
> Hmm.  Unfortunately the function is called set-accidental-style,
> so calling them "rules" might be just as confusing.
>
> > > - in 2.8.3, meaning the graphical appearance of accidentals
> >
> > If we do the latter, this can be kept as "accidental styles" or be
> > augmented with "graphic accidental styles".
>
> I think changing the description here to "glyph" might be
> better, since the override here already uses "glyph-name...".
>
> So "The style for accidentals and key signatures is ..." would become
> "The glyphs used for accidentals and key signatures are ..."

The "Accidental" property "style" has only recently been replaced by a new 
property "glyph-name-alist".  Apart from that, Lily almost consistently 
uses the term "style" for choosing between different sets of related 
glyphs:

- a "style" property is available and documented at least for each of the 
grobs "Notehead", "Rest" and "TimeSignature";

- a property "flag-style" is available and documented for "Stem" grobs;

- clef styles for the \clef command are documented in Sect. 2.8.3 and 
2.8.4.

I heavily vote for sticking to this naming convention as consistently as 
possible.

Best wishes,
Juergen