Re: Add a \voicify command (issue 320820043 by address@hidden)

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.04.2017 um 22:07 schrieb David Kastrup:
> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David, you wrote Thursday, April 06, 2017 4:54 PM
>>
>>> You could try separate commands \voicifyUp and \voicifyDown .  I am not
>>> sure whether or not \voicify should not be \voices or \voicing or
>>> \voicings instead, possibly making for nicer compounds like that.
>>>
>>> I mean, something like
>>>
>>> \voices 1,3,4 ...
>> Although you later argued cogently against compounds like \voicesUp I
>> think \voices is a better choice than \voicify anyway, simply because
>> it expresses its operation more clearly (not sure what meaning the word
>> "voicify" would trigger in the mind - in Google it enables voice dictation;
>> in Twitter it applies a filter, for example).  
>>
>> In other words \voices stands better than \voicify on its own merits.
> I'll not stop the countdown for now but am going to commit with this
> change unless we get a conflicting view in which case it would make
> sense to stop the countdown and gather more opinions, possibly from the
> user list.

I think \voices is good.

>
> Not sure what to name input/regression/voicify.ly instead, though.
> "voicify.ly" is clearly referring to the command, "voices.ly" is much
> more ambiguous.  But at least it is not taken yet.

No idea, but I agree it's a glitch.
Urs

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