Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

[Mats Bengtsson]

In general, I'm in favour of 2) and I just learned that you can use ^ and _
also for ties (and that ^[ and _[ is allowed syntax but doesn't do anything
else than [ ).

 /Mats

Graham Percival wrote:
> GDP page:
> http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/
>
>
> About half the subsections in NR 1 and 2 are about material whose
> direction can be controlled.  ie ^ _, along with \fooUp
> \fooNeutral, and \override Foo #'direction.
>
> There's two ways we could handle this info:
> 1)  Add an explanation and example of controlling the placement in
> every one of these subsections.
>
> 2)  Add one sentence with a link to a central place which
> discusses directions.
>
>
> I prefer #2, of course; it makes the docs easier to maintain, and
> frankly easier to read as well -- there's no point in having
> duplicate material in tons of subsections.
>
> There's an example of this in NR 1.2.1.4 Ties  at the moment.
> About halfway down the page, just before the "Predefined
> commands", there's the sample sentence+link that I was suggesting
> in #2, along with the old material which would be deleted.
>
>
> If there's a huge outcry about this, particularly from doc
> helpers, then I'm prepared to go with #1 instead -- but I want the
> docs to be consistent.  Either they all have such examples, or
> none.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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