Re: [GLISS] Existing syntax abominations

[Francisco Vila]

2012/9/21 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> So \addlyrics is on my blacklist of unnecessarily surprising constructs.

It is massively used (I assume; I have no figures) but it is short,
intuitive and easy to remember.

> Then strings in lyrics are sufficiently differently delimited from the
> way strings in markups are.  For example, they can contain unquoted
> curly braces in some positions.  In my opinion, lyrics (which can be
> interspersed with durations) have even less business to allow curly
> braces as part of words without using quote marks than markups have.

Forbidding curly braces in lyrics only would break the examples we do
to demonstrate that curly braces are allowed.

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com