Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 schrieb Graham Percival:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:32:08 +0200
> > Shouldn't that really be \octave #x since other commands are in
> > English?
>
> Probably yes, but lilypond had already an \octave function, which
> performed an octave check. It was only renamed to \octaveCheck a few
> days ago, so I don't want to reuse that function name yet. Otherwise
> legacy .ly files might run into problems.
The term "ottava" is well-understood in English. I didn't even
realize the term was originally German...
I suppose we could use "\octavation" instead, though.
Before I commit, I'd like to sort out the naming issue:
- -) \octave is somehow ruled out by the old \octave (check) function
- -) \ottava is inconsistent with the other (English) commands (and to me
somehow sounds like absolute, not relative octavation)
- -) \octavation sounds good to me
What do you think? I'd vote for \octavation, which is also closer to the
deprecated #(set-octavation ...).
Renaming before the commit is really easy (I'll just search and replace in
the
patch before applying).