Re: GDP: info about controlling direciton / placement

[Graham Percival]

Well, it's not *primarily* about the direction property.  It's
primarily about
  ^ _ -
  \fooUp \fooDown \fooNeutral

We'll mention #'direction as an afterthought.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:14:07 -0000
"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 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-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u
> > 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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