Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Re: Octavation syntax consistency

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:32:08 +0200
Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 schrieb Paul Scott:
> > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > Hello Han-Wen,
> > > Do you have any opinion about this patch (adds \ottava #x, which
> > > is supposed
> > > to make #(set-octavation x) obsolete)? Okay to apply to master?
> >
> > Shouldn't that really be \octave #x since other commands are in
> > English?
> 
> Probably yes, but lilypond had already an \octave function, which
> performed an octave check. It was only renamed to \octaveCheck a few
> days ago, so I don't want to reuse that function name yet. Otherwise
> legacy .ly files might run into problems.

The term "ottava" is well-understood in English.  I didn't even
realize the term was originally German...

I suppose we could use "\octavation" instead, though.

Cheers,
- Graham