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Re: renaming "vertical spacing inside systems" props


From: Carl Sorensen
Subject: Re: renaming "vertical spacing inside systems" props
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 19:20:51 -0600



On 11/6/10 7:17 PM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Okay, it looks like we're converging here...
> 
> Renaming proposals, round 4:
> 
> CURRENT NAME       PROPOSED NAME
> ------------       -------------
> next-staff         staff-staff
> default-next-staff default-staff-staff
> 
> inter-staff        nonstaff-relatedstaff
> inter-loose-line   nonstaff-nonstaff
> non-affinity       nonstaff-unrelatedstaff
> 
> between-staff      withingroup-staff-staff
> after-last-staff   staffgroup-staff
> 
> 
> It seems that no one here is opposed to the odd-looking
> compound words ("withingroup", "relatedstaff" etc.), which
> surprises me a little.  They remind me of the common
> mistake of reading "manslaughter" as "man's laughter"...
> Anyway, if nobody minds these, I guess I don't mind either.

I don't particularly like them, but I can't come up with a better
alternative, and they're much better than the previous, IMO.

> 
> And lastly, I still think reference/opposite is better than
> related/unrelated:
> 
> nonstaff-referencestaff
> nonstaff-oppositestaff

I'd be fine with either reference or related.

Whatever you want is fine with me.

Thanks,

Carl




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