Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

[Francisco Vila]

2008/2/18, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > What about "controlling position"?
>
> If there's consensus about this, I'm happy with that.
>
> The original title was "Up and down", but I thought that was silly.
> Calling it "Controlling vertical {direction/position}" might be
> possible, but then it seems to exclude setting the horizontal
> position... although there are very few such cases.  (maybe fingering?)

For me, the word "direction" does not include issues such as
right-aligning or above/below positions of elements. Direction seems
to indicate an inherent movement, left-to-right, upwards, and so on.

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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