Re: predefined commands for figured bass

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 15:23:09 -0600
"Carl D. Sorensen" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > The other Up/Down commands use Neutral for the \revert.
> > Granted, in this case you generally don't have lilypond
> > choosing which direction to place these objects, but I think
> > it's still worth following that standard.
> 
> Neutral is not a possiblity for figured bass, and it's not the
> current default.  IMO, changing the default to Neutral for
> consistency would be the wrong thing to do.  If we need to have
> consistency with other Up/Down commands, then I think we should
> change the name of these commands, perhaps to something like

Umm, Neutral *is* the default.  \revert sets the property to the
default value.  As far as our predefined commands, "...Neutral"
just means "set it back to the default".

Now, for figured bass, the "default" probably means "always down"
(or maybe "always up"), but that doesn't change the fact that it
*is* the default.


I admit that all the other predefs that have ...Neutral are things
that normally change their position based on the actual music, so
perhaps it's not useful in this case.
See my other email about "predefined maintainer".

Cheers,
- Graham