Re: Can't have rehearsal mark and segno mark at same moment

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-08-14 1:47 am, Wol wrote:
> On 14/08/2022 09:03, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > > OK. Does it sound better to use "nonce" for the semi-deprecated
> > > > feature as you say, or actually for the new feature? Is it clearer
> > > > than "ad-hoc"? ("nonce" is a word that I learnt today.)
> > >
> > > Or maybe \textMark and \textEndMark? I'm not sure.
> >
> > I prefer `\textMark` over 'ad-hoc' or 'nonce'.  As with Jean, I've
> > never used the word 'nonce' before.
> As an English speaker, "nonce" has been in my list of "words I know
> of" pretty much forever. In my list of "words I know what they mean"
> ... it's still not in THAT list :-)
>
> It's archaic, and most native speakers - like me - will have to look
> it up in a dictionary.

It generally finds very narrow usage in computer science, specifically 
crytography as the name for a value to be used "never more than once".

Outside of that, it is slang in some dialects and could be seen as 
offensive due to negative connotations.  Probably best to be avoided.


-- Aaron Hill