Re: Changing voice order...

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-10-27 23:38, David Kastrup wrote:
> The majority tends to be silent.

Minority report out of the silent majority:
I got used to the status quo, which is totally natural once you 
internalized the meaning of \voice<Digit>. Hardly use it, though, but 
that's a different story.

I agree with you that these names are semantically suboptimal. On the 
other hand, I find something like \inner \VoiceUp etc. slightly too 
verbose; I'll get used to it, but I can't say I'm too fond of it.

> I am a radical conservative: I want to keep everything the way it should
> have been from the start.

If that's the goal: I again agree with you that top-to-bottom makes the 
most sense IMHO; but either the << ... \\ ... \\ ... >> just assigns 
names, not styles, or you should also think about some syntactic sugar 
to specify the boundary between "up" and "down" voices. Something like
  <<
    topmost \\ 2nd from top
    \\\ % note the three backslashes
    topmost stem-down \\ middle stem-down \\ bottom stem-down
  >>
which would translate to << 1 \\ 3 \\ 6 \\ 4 \\ 2 >>...


Cheers,
Alexander