Re: Proposed syntax change: renaming of \center-align markup command

[Patrick Horgan]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Patrick Horgan wrote:
>
> > >  
> > As a compromise, how about leaving them in for now, but marking in 
> > the documentation as duplicates of \center-align or \left-column and 
> > /deprecated--users should migrate to the new syntax as the older will 
> > eventually go away/. 
>
> No! A fairly large number of commands and property names have been
> changed recently, without any duplications for backward compatibility.
> convert-ly and the release notes (NEWS) is used to handle these
> changes. There's no reason to treat this syntax change differently
> than the others.
Actually, my suggestion was for a better way of handling these sorts of 
things going forward, that would garnish less user angst.  It would be a 
significant improvement in future handling of such things that would in 
no way affect the current or future use of convert-ly or NEWS.  In fact, 
as a decent C++ programmer, and being familiar with parsers, I'd be 
willing to do a proof of concept, but imagine it might be less 
disruptive if done after the impending release;)

Patrick