Re: MultiMeasureRest vs. MeasureRest

[Mats Bengtsson]

Just as Rune, I'm not a native English speaker, but what about
renaming at least the section title to something like
"Full Measure Rests". The name of the LilyPond graphical object
isn't that critical.

   /Mats

Quoting Rune Zedeler <address@hidden>:

> Paul Scott skrev:
> > > What about renaming MultiMeasureRest to MeasureRest?
> > In English the first has the clear meaning of more than one measure 
> > while the second fairly clearly means one measure rest.

> I am quite bad in english, so I really do not know.
> Even if the wordings are equally bad I would still prefer 
> MeasureRest. If you are looking for a way to typeset a one measure 
> rest you probably will not read the section about "multi measure 
> rest". If, otoh, you are looking for a way to typeset a rest over 
> several measures, I guess that you would read a section about 
> "measure rests".
> But I agree that this argument is not enough for a "grand renaming operation"
>
> > MeasuresRest might work.
>
> Hmm, I don't like that.
> Difficult to pronounce, and a hard-to-remember names that is 
> out-of-line with the naming of the other objects in lilypond (after 
> all, we do not talk about StaffsGroups, do we? :-) )
>
> -Rune
>
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