Re: neutral direction cues

[David Kastrup]

Noeck <address@hidden> writes:

>> Am 16.06.2012 14:01, schrieb:
>>
>>>> I'm interested in changing the "#UP" to a neutral direction because I
>>>> want the stems in the cue to be neutral direction. But If I use "#0"
>>>> instead of "#UP", the notes are not formatted as cue notes at all.
>>>
>>> #CENTER is more mnemonic.
>
> wouldn’t be #NEUTRAL be more consistent with other Lilypond syntax?
> (I don’t know the Lilypond internals well enough, but in the user
> interface there is e.g. \stemNeutral and so on.)

It is not even neutral but no-change.  NEUTRAL is not defined in Scheme.
If you take a look at scm/lily-library.scm, CENTER is closest in
meaning, though you can actually use anything rather than 0 with the
proposed code.  The user interface is actually worth rethinking anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup