Re: RFC: \hideNote

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Adam,

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Adam Spiers
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I am sure other more experienced programmers will chime in but having
>>> two 'similar' functions
>>>
>>> \hideNote
>>> \hideNotes
>>>
>>> Is a good idea.
>>
>> I thought we had settled on \functionOn and \functionOff (e.g., \sustainOn 
>> and \sustainOff).
>> So we should have \hideNotesOn and \hideNotesOff, right? Then \hideNote 
>> could stand for "\once \hideNotesOn".
>> That seems clear to me.
>
> Ah, that makes sense.  I could do the rename, but is there some process
> for handling non-backwards-compatible changes in syntax?
>

Don't want to sound like a bore but all this (and other things you
will probably run into) is pretty well documented in our Contributor;s
Guide.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/adding-or-modifying-features

James

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James