[JW Lua] SMuFL constants in JW Lua

[Charles O. Lawrence]

I would say that you would know best what to use.

Charles Lawrence



-----Original Message-----
From: JWLua [mailto:jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu] On Behalf Of Jari Williamsson
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 6:40 AM
To: The JW Lua script plug-in. <jwlua at jwmusic.nu>
Subject: [JW Lua] SMuFL constants in JW Lua

Hello All!

I'm planning to include SMuFL support in JW Lua on multiple levels, since
that's clearly where Finale and music notation are heading right now. On the
most generic level, I want to add the SMuFL symbol constants and use them as
mapping for musical characters (even for the old legacy fonts), so the
scripts becomes easier to maintain. Scripts will then be able to reference a
symbol constant instead of just a slot number for a font.

My question to you is how the SMuFL symbols should be mapped to JW Lua
constants:

For example, the "4-string tab clef" glyph has the SMuFL symbol name
"4stringTabClef". How would you like this to be represented in JW Lua:
* finale.SMUFLSYM_4stringTabClef
or
* finale.SMUFLSYM_4STRINGTABCLEF
or
* finale.SMUFLSYM_4STRING_TAB_CLEF

Personally, I can see the usefulness of using an exception to the
all-upper-case rule here (and use the "finale.SMUFLSYM_4stringTabClef" 
naming convention), since that would make it easy to use the SMuFL
documentation directly.

What are your thoughts?


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


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