Re: Case of 'c' in partcombine

[Charles Winston]

> On May 25, 2017, at 11:48 AM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 5/25/17 8:40 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Charles Winston"
> <address@hidden on behalf of
> address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hey developers,
>> 
>> I am working on my first patch‹it is resolving a very simple issue from
>> the tracker. The case of the Œc¹ in partcombine is inconsistent and can
>> result in some confusion. For example: \partcombine, \partcombineApart,
>> and others like this use the lower-case Œc' Š but
>> \partCombineTextsOnNote, \partCombineListener use the camelCase ŒC¹. The
>> suggestion is to change all instances of partcombine to the camelCase
>> partCombine‹not the other way around because the engraver treats ³part²
>> and ³combine² as separate words: ŒPart_combine_engraver¹.
> 
> This is an easy patch in terms of functionality, but it will need a
> convert-ly rule because it will break existing scores.  That's not a
> reason to avoid doing it; you just need to be aware that the rule will
> need to be made and tested.
> 
>> 
>> I would love some guidance as to where to find all the instances of
>> partcombine. 
> 
> I would do 
> 
> git grep -i combine
> 
> which should find every occurrence of combine, ignoring case.  It should
> catch all of the things you've identified in your first paragraph.

Is there a reason to ignore case? The goal is to change the lowercase ‘c’s to 
uppercase in every instance of “partcombine”. It seems to me that ignoring case 
will give me instances that I do not need to change.

Charles