Re: \context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

2006-02-10 Thread Trevor Bača
On 2/10/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do we have \context and \new ? I know that \context lets you name > a context and \new doesn't... but is that the only difference? ... > actually, you can use \context to do fancy stuff with already-existing > contexts, right? > > Could

Re: \context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

2006-02-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Don Blaheta wrote: Quoth Mats Bengtsson: It wouldn't make sense to let a user specify a context name with \new, since then there is no longer any guarantee that the context really is new, right? Also, if you want to name a context, then you should use \context. Would it make sense to permit

Re: parentheses problem

2006-02-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > . The horizontal dimension of parentheses are not taken into > > account, making lilypond shift the sharp to the left. This > > makes it quite difficult to notice the parentheses at all. > > I know. This is a difficult problem, in that it is not clear when > to include the dimension of t

Re: \context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

2006-02-10 Thread Don Blaheta
Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > It wouldn't make sense to let a user specify a context name > with \new, since then there is no longer any guarantee that > the context really is new, right? Also, if you want to name a > context, then you should use \context. Would it make sense to permit \new Foo = "bar",

Re: parentheses problem

2006-02-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
By the way, is it possible/easy to get brackets instead of parentheses? /Mats Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Werner LEMBERG wrote: The new feature regarding parenthesizing as presented in NEWS.html (2006-02-10, 8AM) exhibits two bugs. . The vertical dimension of parentheses is apparently not

Re: \context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

2006-02-10 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The difference is that \new internally generates a unique new name to the context, thus making sure that you really get a new context. If you use \context, then you must make up a new unique name yourself, if you want to get a new context and not just another invocation of some existing context.

\context foo = "bar" vs. \new foo

2006-02-10 Thread Graham Percival
Why do we have \context and \new ? I know that \context lets you name a context and \new doesn't... but is that the only difference? ... actually, you can use \context to do fancy stuff with already-existing contexts, right? Could we change \new so that it can also name a new context? I'm

Re: review new info on file layout

2006-02-10 Thread Graham Percival
On 8-Feb-06, at 8:05 PM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Quoting Mats Bengtsson: I think that it's fine to have { c } as an easy-to-use syntax. However, somewhere in the documentation it ought to mention what { c } will expand to, when the defaults are put in. That's what the new docs do. It's al

Latest CVS and paths...

2006-02-10 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hi,I suspect that a recent change in GNUmakefile.in (revision 1.186, see attached patch, extracted from CVS) has something to do with this:bash $ ls out/share/lilypond    currentbash $ ls out/share/lilypond/current 2.7.33  elisp   lilypond-force  mf  python 

Re: setting the number of pages for a score

2006-02-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Joe Neeman wrote: I don't understand; how do you use line breaking in the page-breaker? Within the current architecture, the vertical formatting step is non reversible, so you can't really figure out the height of one line-break configuration (which requires vertical formatting), and then tr

Re: parentheses problem

2006-02-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Werner LEMBERG wrote: The new feature regarding parenthesizing as presented in NEWS.html (2006-02-10, 8AM) exhibits two bugs. . The vertical dimension of parentheses is apparently not included in the calculation of the whole vertical size. In the image, the lower part of the parenthes

Re: setting the number of pages for a score

2006-02-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > I expect that a full optimal page layout module is still far away, but > we could roll out constrained line breaking relatively easily. This is great. It is also a good step towards optimal page layout, it would exciting to what an Guess_allow_pagebreak_engraver could