Re: New lyrics trick available in 2.9.6

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Graham Percival schreef:
> > Indeed.  This could be renamed to `Nirvana', to have an international
> > background -- we already use `Harakiri' (which should be called
> > `Seppuku', BTW, because Japanese normally use the Chinese reading, not
> > the Japanese one :-).
>
> Actually, we phased out "harakiri" in documentation and user-land a 
> couple of years ago; we had a complaint about being insensitive or 
> something like that.  I'm not certain if "harakiri" still exists in 
> low-level internal stuff, but for the users, it's \removeEmptyStaff.   :)
>
> I think that Erik's suggestion of "Null" makes sense.  Other ideas are 
> "Empty" or "Nothing", but I think that Null is still clear enough for 
> non-programmers.

I personally like Nirvana (or Shunyata), but I think "Nothing" or 
"NullContext" would be best, probably the latter because it leaves less 
questions.

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