Re: Changing voice order...

[Br. Samuel Springuel]

I'm not a heavy user, so take my thoughts with whatever grain of salt 
you want, but this is how I would naively expect these constructs to work:

<< \\ \\ \\ >>
The voices would be entered in order from top to bottom.  In this way 
the physical structure of the code would resemble the structure of the 
music I'm entering (thanks to line breaks in the code between the voices).

\voiceOne \voiceTwo \voiceThree \voiceFour
The numbers here are confusing.  They could be a top-down enumeration of 
the voices or a more musical outside to inside pattern.  Further, the 
fact that they don't match up with the 1/2/3/4 numbers of the implicit 
code above is even more confusing.  If we stick with numbers, then 
numbers should match.  However it would probably better if we got away 
from numbers altogether here.  Kieren's suggestion of \voiceUp.1 and 
\voiceDown.1 seems somewhat more natural, but the numbers still have the 
potential for confusion.  I do not know how to solve this (if it's 
solvable).

Finally, as a coder I always favor a phased process for changes to the 
user interface so that people have time to adapt to the change.  A flag 
which can flip between the new and old behavior is definitely in order 
until 3.0.0 comes out.  I'd default the flag to the old behavior while 
the new one is being worked on and then default it to the new behavior 
once a stable state has been reached.
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Br. Samuel, OSB
St. Anselm’s Abbey
Washington, DC
(R. Padraic Springuel)

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