Re: allowing \f and \F

[Sue Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Sunday, September 23, 2012 3:20 AM


> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:25:17PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> I don't want to differentiate between predefined and user-defined
>> commands.
> 
> That's certainly a consistent view to take, but it might be worth
> discussing that further at some point.  If there's a separate
> namespace then I can't see any technical problems, and some users
> may appreciate being able to define short strings like $a or $f
> without any conflict with existing commands and keywords.

Other users may wish to redefine predefs.  That ability is more
valuable, I think.

>> You are aware that LilyPond allows _any_ utf-8 character outside of the
>> ASCII page in strings, identifiers and note names already?
> 
> Obviously not.  I wonder how many non-English speakers are aware
> of this -- do we have an example of this in the Learning or
> Notation manuals?

I don't think so, although it has been mentioned on -User.  I guess
we need a doc issue for this so it doesn't get forgotten ;)

Trevor