Re: doc NR 1.2.1 Ties

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> Graham Percival wrote Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:13 AM
>
>> Those are not predefined commands -- predefined commands are for
>> predefined tweaks.  Those commands are basic lilypond commands.
>> (I suppose we might rename @predef to be "predefined tweaks"
>> rather than commands... Trevor, any thoughts?)
>
> With hindsight "predefined tweaks" would have
> been a better name.  It's easy to change the
> macro, but the term "predefined commands" is
> used quite extensively in the text.

I just searched for "redefined" (catching any capitalization), and
didn't find many instances of address@hidden

> It might be just about safe to do a global change on all the
> .itely files.  If you'd like to do this I could check the commit
> to make sure no damage has been done.

I think this would be a good idea.

> Another thought.  Should we find a naming convention as part of
> LSD that distinguishes commands from predefined tweaks?  Most
> commands seem to be single words and most predefined tweaks seem
> to be camel-case multiple words.  Could this be made a
> convention?

That's a nice idea... it's definitely worth discussing during LSD.
Although I've come up with a better name: GLISS, the Grand
Lilypond Input Syntax Standardization.  It's even music-related!

Cheers,
- Graham