Re: When is "-" required in articulations?

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave wrote May 22, 2008 9:03 AM
> 2008/5/22 Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:
>
> > > @item string markups, e.g. -"string"
> >
> > "string markups" isn't really an established term (unless you have coined 
> > it
> > recently in the
> > documentation updates). I guess that in LilyPond terminology it would be 
> > a
> > "text script specified
> > as a string" or something similar. I'm not what makes most sense to an
> > average reader of the manual,
> > though.
>
> As a matter of fact, this is precisely one question Graham and I
> argued about without finding a decent solution. The current sentence
> is :
>
> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-markup-introduction.html
>
> "Markup expressions may also be enclosed in double quotes "...". Such
> expressions are treated as text strings and may not contain nested
> expressions or commands. Therefore, braces are generally prefered to
> double quotes."
>
> Actually, it would be nice if we had a specific name for such objects.
> Graham told me to find something but neither he or I could come up
> with a smart solution.

I think I'll use "text annotation" here, as I want the phrase to
describe its purpose rather than its type.  But this might not be a
suitable term for the general case.  Maybe the generic "text string"
would be suitable, although "string" is computerese.  How about
"quoted text" as a general name for such objects?

In the case of text annotations without a preceding \markup, as in
the example here, braces cannot be substituted for the quote marks,
of course.  Also the quotes can be omitted if the script is a single
word containing only alpha characters.

> Cheers,
> Valentin
Trevor