Re: Renaming \setTextCresc, \setHairpinCresc, etc.

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/4/30 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:43:59 -0700
> Patrick McCarty <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I would like to propose that we rename the textual crescendo and
>> decrescendo commands to names that are more intuitive and are more
>> internally consistent.  The current implementation uses the "hairpin"
>> commands to revert the "text" commands, but I do not think this
>> solution is very intuitive.  Here is the list of the commands in
>> question:
>>
>> \setTextCresc
>> \setTextDecresc
>> \setTextDecr
>> \setTextDim
>> \setHairpinCresc
>> \setHairpinDecresc
>> \setHairpinDim
>
> \set**** must die.  It's massively confusing for newbies (and in
> more than one case, doc writers).  I thought we'd fixed all of
> these, but upon investigation it seems that we only did
> ly/property-init.ly and not ly/spanners-init.ly
>
>
>> Since hairpins are the default output -- using \< and \> -- shouldn't
>> the revert commands indicate that the "textual" (de)crescendo marks
>> are being turned off?  Maybe we should keep the \set... commands that
>> set the alternative behavior (textual crescendos, etc.) and use
>> \unset...  commands as their opposites.  Or we could rename them using
>> the on/off method: \textCrescOn, \textCrescOff, etc.
>
> I prefer on/off.  However, I'm not certain whether we want to go
> with
>  \textCrescOn
> or
>  \hairpinCrescOn
> (with Off being the opposite, of course)
>
> We could even go with pairs of:
>  \crescText
>  \crescHairpin
>
> ... actually, I think the last idea is by far the best.  Any
> objections?

Since the Issue 143 has been fixed, we are now ready to rename this
command to... whatever you guys will decide.

Cheers,
Valentin