Re: Implement framework for post-fix text (de)cresc spanners

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:57:26PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On Sunday 23 August 2009 02:16:15 Carl Sorensen wrote:
> > Yes, we should call it \newcresc, and indicate in the documentation
> > that \cresc is deprecated.
...
> So,for now I would simply apply that patch so that the properties get 
> interpreted, but don't add a new command, which will be changed in the 
> next version again. Anyone who whats to use them (basically, that's me 
> for now),can always write our own mycresc or even overload the existing 
> cresc command as postfix.

This sounds very sensible to me.  Now, to forstall any complaints
that new features shouldn't be demonstrated in input/regression/,
could you copy that regtest into Documentation/snippets/new/ ?
With a warning that the new \cresc won't be integrated until 3.0,
redefine at your own risk, etc.

Cheers,
- Graham