Re: LM 4.4.2 \fooDown \fooUp (and how about \textDown?)

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:22 PM


> On 12/21/10 1:14 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> > Oh, and by the way: we have \textSpannerDown for text spanners, 
> > but
> > not \textDown for simple TextScript objects (that are quite 
> > likely to
> > be needed by new users). Anyone against adding textDown, textUp,
> > textNeutral?
>
> Why should we add \textDown, \textUp, and \textNeutral? 
> TextScript is
> markup text, IIUC, and markup text attached to a note is always 
> preceded by
> ^ - or _, isn't it?  It seems to me that having special commands 
> will just
> cause confusion.

I agree.  The predefined commands that exist are
useful because the preceding direction indicator
may be omitted, but it may not be omitted from a
\markup.

Trevor