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 :: A response to these comments in general: Thank you so much for taking the time to think so deeply about this! It makes me very happy to know my tool has at least one enthusiastic user. Sorry I took so long to reply. I left some specific comments below the paragraphs to which they are most relevant. --[[User:M-yac|M-yac]] ([[User talk:M-yac|talk]]) 03:47, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
+::: I've been mulling over how to have both uses of "negative" coexist without confusing the user. I do like the narrower meaning, and don't like it being altered. I wouldn't have a problem with you personally using the term that way in your writings, which is what I meant by not being dictatorial. But by labeling your usage "color notation", I feel that words are being put in my mouth.
+::: I think the answer is when your usage occurs, the usage is marked somehow as alternate, and a link is provided to an explanatory paragraph on the about page. (Which I of course would help you write, or you could just pull from what I've written here.) For example the color notation output for 4/5 could be
+::::: descending yo 3rd,
+::::: gu negative 3rd, g-3
+::::: (<u>alternate usage</u> of "negative")
+::: with the underlined text being the aforementioned link. Would this work for you?
+::: As for "dzg5" or "dezogu 5th" for 5/7, I think there's quite enough 1-letter and 2-letter abbreviations already, and 5/7 should simply be written "desc zg5". Funny, in all my years, I've never needed anything beyond desc. But I'm curious, can you give me examples of when dezogu would be used?
+::: I'm being a stickler for this because the quality of your webapp is so high, I'm sure in the future far most people will learn color notation directly from xen-calc than from my writings. Especially now that the xenwiki links to it on every interval page. You will have far, far more than one "enthusiastic user"! But of course with freeware, you never get to see how big your user base becomes. Anyway, once we get this matter straightened out, I'd like to link to xen-calc in the first paragraph of the color notation xenwiki page, and also on my various websites. --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 11:29, 23 August 2021 (UTC)