Re: Mensural style

[Trevor Daniels]

Francisco Vila wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 10:49 AM


> 2008/12/29 Stefan Waler <address@hidden>:
> > BTW, the term "accidental style" appears twice in the documentation with 
> > a
> > completely different meaning:
> > - in 1.1.3, meaning the way how to display and reset accidentals
>
> In the detailed explanation they are named "rules" so I propose to
> always call them "accidental rules" and remove the word "styles" from
> the whole section.

Hmm.  Unfortunately the function is called set-accidental-style,
so calling them "rules" might be just as confusing.

> > - in 2.8.3, meaning the graphical appearance of accidentals
>
> If we do the latter, this can be kept as "accidental styles" or be
> augmented with "graphic accidental styles".

I think changing the description here to "glyph" might be
better, since the override here already uses "glyph-name...".

So "The style for accidentals and key signatures is ..." would become
"The glyphs used for accidentals and key signatures are ..."

Trevor