Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

[Marc Hohl]

address@hidden schrieb:
> Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > > Something else I just though of, is that there isn't a shortcut for
> > > setting the direction of stems that aren't beamed.  It would be 
> > > helpful if
> > > there were a shortcut you could put after c4 to set the stem direction.
> > > Maybe like ^| or _|
> >
> > I think that would be making the syntax too "busy".  We don't want
> > to end up like perl.
> >
> > Soomething like ^[ is fine, since we normally use [ and we
> > normally use ^ _ directions.  But inventing a new meaning for |
> > would be a mistake.
>
> Another idea would be to have a means to define macros,
> say like in TeX. This would answer the shortcut question minor
> some extra backslashes. For instance, instead of ^|, one could write
> \beamup or something like that.
Lilypond supports \stemUp / \stemDown already.

Marc
> Such macros (without parameters) would tremendously simplify
> lots of pieces of lilypond code, but with parameterized macros
> it would even be more striking.
>
> Denis Roegel
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