Re: PATCH: Improved tablature support

[Carl Sorensen]

On 7/17/09 10:16 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen schrieb:
>> 
>> Right, so we *must* have the function mode.  Do we need the setting mode as
>> well?  I don't feel strongly about eliminating it, but I don't feel strongly
>> about keeping it either.  I trust your judgment.
>>  
> I prefer to offer both variants.
>> However, now that I think about it, for the function call, I would prefer
>> the name \deadNotes (plural) instead of \deadNote (singular), because it can
>> take multiple notes in its argument.
>>  
> Yes, I had that before, but I decided to remove the plural s, because
> in chord constructs, it works only on the next note, and in normal
> contexts,
> c d \deadNote e f
> influences only the e (\deadNotes would imply to influence e and f, in
> my opinion).
> When one uses { }, \deadNote works on a group of notes, so the meaning here
> is clear. So personnally, I wouldn't change it ...

Thinking of similar functions, like \relative and \harmonic, perhaps we
should just name the function to \dead.  Then we'd have

<c \dead e g>4 or \dead {c d e f g a b}

This also brings more distinction between \deadNotesOn and \dead; one of my
concerns was potential confusion between \deadNote and \deadNotesOn.  What
do you think?

Carl