Re: Issue 2859: Provide \hide and \omit functions for transparent and void glyphs (issue 6575048)

[dak]

On 2012/10/03 19:32:15, pounderd_lineone.net wrote:

> >----Original Message----
> >From: mailto:address@hidden
> >Call me an optimist, but I think we are good now.

> Apologies if this ship has sailed, but has anyone considered \suppress

> and \unsuppress?

The ship has not sailed, but retailoring the sails at the current
stage is probably not going to be met with a lot of enthusiasm.

Disadvantages I see for \suppress are that it is longer to type.
Also, with \omit/\hide I find it easier to guess which of the two is
not even going to reserve space.  \omit sounds more like something
being left out from the start than \suppress does.  Between omitting a
sneeze and suppressing a sneeze, the latter sounds like a lot more
work.

With regard to grammatical awkwardness of reversal, \un\suppress and
\un\omit are about on par: unsuppress is not really a proper word even
though unsuppressed is (but it is not the past participle of the
negation of suppress, but rather the negation of the past participle
of suppress).

So figure me unimpressed.

Here are a few other suggestions:
  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "annihilate":
     abate, abolish, abrogate, abscind, amputate, annul, ban, bar,
     bereave of life, blot out, bob, bring to naught, cancel,
     carry away, carry off, chloroform, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away,
     cut down, cut off, cut out, decimate, demolish, deprive of life,
     deracinate, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for,
     do to death, dock, efface, eliminate, end, enucleate, eradicate,
     erase, except, excise, exclude, execute, expunge, exterminate,
     extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, immolate, invalidate,
     isolate, kill, knock off, launch into eternity, liquidate, lop,
     lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, massacre, murder,
     mutilate, negate, negative, nip, nullify, obliterate, pare, peel,
     pick out, poison, prune, purge, put away, put down, put to death,
     put to sleep, quash, quell, quench, raze, remove, remove from life,
     repeal, revoke, root out, root up, rout, ruin, rule out, sacrifice,
     set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slay, squash, stamp out,
     starve, strike off, strip, strip off, suppress, sweep away,
     take life, take off, take out, truncate, unbuild, undo, uproot,
     vitiate, void, wipe out, wrack, wreck

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "omit":
     abandon, abbreviate, abridge, ban, bar, bar out, blink at,
     blockade, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor,
     count out, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, debar, dele, delete,
     discount, disregard, edit, edit out, embargo, eradicate, erase,
     except, exclude, expunge, expurgate, fail, forget, freeze out,
     goldbrick, goof off, ignore, jump, keep out, kill, leave,
     leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be,
     let dangle, let go, let slide, lock out, malinger, miss, neglect,
     obliterate, ostracize, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up,
     preclude, pretermit, procrastinate, prohibit, reject, relegate,
     repudiate, rescind, rub out, send to Coventry, shirk, shut out,
     skip, slack, slight, strike, strike off, strike out, taboo, trifle,
     void

  239 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppress":
     abate, absorb the shock, allay, alleviate, annihilate, arrest,
     asphyxiate, assuage, attemper, ban, bank the fire, bar, beat down,
     bend, black out, block, blunt, bottle up, break, break down,
     break the fall, bring low, bring to terms, browbeat, bulldoze,
     bully, castrate, cease, censor, chasten, check, choke, choke off,
     clamp down on, coerce, compel, conceal, conquer, constrain,
     control, cork, cork up, countercheck, cover up, cow, crack down on,
     crush, curb, cushion, cut off, dam up, damp, damp down, dampen,
     daunt, de-emphasize, deaden, debar, delay, deny, despotize, detain,
     diminish, disallow, discontinue, domineer, domineer over, downplay,
     drown, dull, dwarf, embargo, end, enjoin, enslave, exclude,
     exclude from, extenuate, extinguish, fell, flatten, forbid, gag,
     grind, grind down, halt, henpeck, hide, hinder, hold back,
     hold down, hold in, hold in check, hold up, hugger-mugger, humble,
     humiliate, hush, hush up, hush-hush, impede, inhibit, intercept,
     interdict, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene,
     intimidate, jump on, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in,
     keep in check, keep quiet, keep secret, keep under,
     keep under control, keep within bounds, kill, lay, lenify, lessen,
     lighten, lock in, lord it over, maintain, master, meddle, mitigate,
     moderate, modulate, muffle, mute, muzzle, neutralize, obstruct,
     obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, outlaw, overawe, overbear,
     overmaster, override, overwhelm, palliate, play down,
     pour water on, preclude, preserve, press heavy on, prevent,
     prohibit, proscribe, prostrate, put, put down, put out, quash,
     quell, quench, quiet, reduce, reduce the temperature, refuse,
     reject, repress, resist, restrain, retain, retard, ride down,
     ride over, ride roughshod over, rule out, save, save up, say no to,
     scotch, set back, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, shush,
     shut down on, shut out, silence, sit down on, sit on, slacken,
     slow down, smash, smother, snub, snuff out, sober, sober down,
     soften, soften the blow, squash, squelch, stamp out, stanch,
     stifle, stop, strangle, stultify, subdue, subjugate, sublimate,
     suffocate, taboo, tame, temper, terminate, terrorize, throttle,
     tone down, trample down, trample out, trample underfoot,
     trample upon, tread down, tread underfoot, tread upon, tune down,
     tyrannize, tyrannize over, underplay, unman, vanquish,
     walk all over, walk over, weaken, weigh heavy on, withhold

I guess we won't exactly use \send-to-Coventry or \ride-roughshod-over
or \tyrannize, but there are several possibilities like \squash or
\kill that are definitely feasible.  I don't see anything that makes
me really call out "oh, I want that over \omit".


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