Re: renaming "vertical spacing inside systems" props

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:00 PM


> On 11/3/10 2:49 PM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Trevor wrote:
> > > I wonder if affinity/nonaffinity are optimal.  Are they
> > > better than relatedstaff/unrelatedstaff?
> >
> > Or target/opposite, reference/opposite, refstaff/oppstaff?
> >
> > Actually, now I really like refstaff/oppstaff:
>
> ref and opp are abbreviations and not good for non-native-english 
> speakers.

+1 Abbreviations are bad, bad.

> nonstaff-associatedstaff-spacing
> nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing
> nonstaff-freestaff-spacing or nonstaff-isolatedstaff-spacing
>
> Looking at a thesaurus, I have some more ideas:
>
> nonstaff-relatedstaff  vs. nonstaff-unrelatedstaff

That was my original suggestion :)

> nonstaff-linkedstaff vs. nonstaff-separatestaff
> nonstaff-attachedstaff vs. nonstaff-detachedstaff
> nonstaff-affixedstaff vs. nonstaff-releasedstaff
> nonstaff-alliedstaff vs. nonstaff-foreignstaff
> nonstaff-alliedstaff vs. nonstaff-disjoinedstaff

I still prefer nonstaff-relatedstaff/nonstaff-unrelatedstaff

> > How do you feel about
> >   staffgrouped-staff-staff-spacing ?
>
> If we're going with this idea, I'd prefer
>
>  groupedstaff-staff-staff-spacing
>
> since it's better english than staffgrouped IMO.

I could live with this, although

 groupedstaves-staff-staff-spacing

is even clearer.

> > It's the same length as
> >   within-group-staff-staff-spacing
> >
> > but it has one less hyphen, which for some reason I consider
> > an advantage.  Although I might prefer within-group anyway.
> > Now, if we do use
> >   within-group-staff-staff-spacing
>
> Maybe it's withingroup-staff-staff-spacing.

This looks the best so far to me.

> > I thought we might as well shorten
> >   staffgroup-staff-spacing
> >
> > to
> >   group-staff-spacing .
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I prefer staffgroup-staff spacing, since it's a staffgroup object, 
> not a
> group object, that we're trying to space.

+1

> Renaming proposals, round 3:
>
> CURRENT NAME       PROPOSED NAME            TD's PREFERENCE
> ------------       -------------            ---------------
> next-staff         staff-staff
> default-next-staff default-staff-staff
>
> inter-staff        nonstaff-refstaff        nonstaff-relatedstaff
> inter-loose-line   nonstaff-nonstaff
> non-affinity       nonstaff-oppstaff 
> nonstaff-unrelatedstaff
>
> between-staff      within-group-staff-staff 
> withingroup-staff-staff
> after-last-staff   group-staff              staffgroup-staff