Re: Feature Request: ^\times and _\times

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Something else I just though of, is that there isn't a shortcut for 
> setting the direction of stems that aren't beamed.  It would be helpful if 
> there were a shortcut you could put after c4 to set the stem direction. 
> Maybe like ^| or _|

I think that would be making the syntax too "busy".  We don't want
to end up like perl.

Soomething like ^[ is fine, since we normally use [ and we
normally use ^ _ directions.  But inventing a new meaning for |
would be a mistake.


If you're writing some really complicated piece of modern music
with tons of stem changes (that have nothing to do with different
voices), then just live with your lilypond input being complicated.

Cheers,
- Graham