Re: Implement new markup-command combine-list (issue 264960043 by address@hidden)

[thomasmorley65]

On 2015/08/31 10:27:04, dak wrote:

> Ok, I've taken a look.  Markups are so undelimited in their nature
that there is
> not much of an option other than convert-ly actually knowing all
markup commands
> with their signatures.  That's doable but rather onerous.  In
addition,
> musicxml2ly uses the \combine command as well.

> So we are likely better off with a new command name.  "\combines"
would also be
> a possibility but is probably too cute/confusing/unhyphenated.  Now if
we
> basically phase out \combine and replace most of its uses manually, it
would
> become an option just to use some _unrelated_ word.

> Like \superimpose or \overlay or \collect or something other nice.  Or
just keep
> the bikeshed in the originally proposed color.

Thanks for your time looking into a possible convert-rule.

I'm really tempted to delete old \combine and fixing all occurences in
our source.
Would it be an option to do a convert-rule outputting "Not smart enough
to ..."? for a combine-command without a markup-list as argument?
I seem to remember something like that has been done before.

If that's not feasible or wanted, I'd prefer \combine-list, because it's
descriptive (in a technical way) or \overlay, because there is a
LSR-snippet providing the functionality already and some users may be
used to it.
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=628

What do people think?

@James
I suggest to let this one on REVIEW for another circle


https://codereview.appspot.com/264960043/