Re: renaming "vertical spacing inside systems" props

[James]

Hello,

On 02/11/2010 23:20, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> I wonder if affinity/nonaffinity are optimal.
> Are they better than relatedstaff/unrelatedstaff?

To who? programmers or most other people who use LilyPond in general 
(i.e. me?).

So here I am, just done my first 'mary had a little lamb' score (with 
Dynamics and chords and EVERYTHING!), dead chuffer with myself but I can 
see that the lines need some adjustment nothing in the Learning Manual, 
because it's a bit more advanced so I go to the Notation Reference on 
how to do that and I see this (and staff-staff or staffgroup-staff). You 
might as well call them 'bingy-bongy-boo' for the meaning that 
nonaffinity has.

?

Unless we really explain this properly in the docs what this term 
actually means, it really does put a lot of people off (i.e. me).

I seem to recall that Valentin was struggling to get people to use 
'include \italian.ly' (or whatever it was), this is not going to do us 
any favours.

I'd like to propose some of my own terms (so as to not be seen to be 
*just* complaining) but I still don't really understand what the 
constraints are here and why it matters if we use noun-adjective-noun or 
noun-noun-verb or whatever we are trying to do here.

Yours (a regular non-developy person trying to be constructive)

James