Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/8/26 Dmytro O. Redchuk <address@hidden>:
> On Fri 26 Aug 2011, 13:54 David Kastrup wrote:
>> So maybe the "spacer rest" terminology is not doing anybody a favor.
>>
>> Would you have felt more comfortable if my example had used "\skip"
>> instead of "spacer rests"?
> No, not sure. Why "music" should contain any "skips" to be "typeset" nicely?
>
> Well, really, excuse me :-)
>
> I wanted to say, that, very probably, "\<{...}" would be really great
> (to shift starting point right). And that spacers are, as for me, a bit
> "innatural".

How do you like syntax like this:
e1 \< #0.25 \f #0.5 \> f2 \! #0.5
which would mean this
\new Voice << { e1 f2 } {s4 s4 \< s2 \f \> s4 s4 \! } >>
?

Some of your concerns are already on my to-do list, but they are
waiting for GLISS.

cheers,
Janek