Re: Provide \hide and \omit functions for transparent and void glyphs (issue 6575048)

[Marc Hohl]

Am 29.09.2012 11:01, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Marc Hohl <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Am 28.09.2012 17:40, schrieb address@hidden:
> > > > hmm... not quite perfect.
> > > > No other idea, though...
> > > \here misses the relation to the next item (not that \single is much
> > > better).  \directly was nicer in that regard.  \next would possibly also
> > > work.
> > Having to choose between \single and \next, I would take \next.
> After thinking this over, I realized what worries me about \next: next
> is a loop control command in a number of different languages like awk,
> perl, Python.
... or think about TeX ;-)
>   It is also frequently used for linked list pointers.  All
> of those common uses in computing are quite grammatically different in
> their usage.
But on the other hand, we talk about usability, and I am not quite sure
that *every* user thinks Perl/Python/TeX when he or she writes Lilypond.
And \next seems to be more self-explanatory than \single (at least to 
me, it is).

Regards,

Marc
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