RE: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

[Trevor Daniels]

Since the section is going to describe the use of the
'direction property, why not call it that?

Choose one of:

Direction property
The direction property
Use of the direction property

As its use is so diverse we can't hope to capture all of
them in the heading.

Trevor D

> -----Original Message-----
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> address@hidden Behalf Of
> Graham Percival
> Sent: 18 February 2008 17:42
> To: Kieren MacMillan
> Cc: address@hidden; Mats Bengtsson
> Subject: Re: GDP: info about controlling
> direciton / placement
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:26:25 -0500
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > >> The advanced term is "grobs", but I'd rather
> avoid that here.  For
> > >> some reason I prefer "controlling direction"
> instead of
> > >> "controlling placement", although I can't
> give any reason for this.
> >
> > > I'm not fully convinced that everybody will
> understand what
> > > "directions"
> > > refers to (can't a conductor give directions,
> for example?).
> >
> > 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?)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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