Re: Add a \voicify command (issue 320820043 by address@hidden)

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Friday, April 07, 2017 9:07 PM


> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> David, you wrote Thursday, April 06, 2017 4:54 PM
>>
>>> You could try separate commands \voicifyUp and \voicifyDown .  I am not
>>> sure whether or not \voicify should not be \voices or \voicing or
>>> \voicings instead, possibly making for nicer compounds like that.
>>> 
>>> I mean, something like
>>> 
>>> \voices 1,3,4 ...
>>
>> Although you later argued cogently against compounds like \voicesUp I
>> think \voices is a better choice than \voicify anyway, simply because
>> it expresses its operation more clearly (not sure what meaning the word
>> "voicify" would trigger in the mind - in Google it enables voice dictation;
>> in Twitter it applies a filter, for example).  
>>
>> In other words \voices stands better than \voicify on its own merits.
> 
> I'll not stop the countdown for now but am going to commit with this
> change unless we get a conflicting view in which case it would make
> sense to stop the countdown and gather more opinions, possibly from the
> user list.

OK.  Happy to wait to see what others think, or, if there's no further
input, to defer to your preference.
 
> Not sure what to name input/regression/voicify.ly instead, though.
> "voicify.ly" is clearly referring to the command, "voices.ly" is much
> more ambiguous.  But at least it is not taken yet.

Well, lots of the regression tests have compound names.
"reordering-voices-in-parallel-construct.ly or something
similarly descriptive would be fine.

Trevor


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