On Monday 06 November 2006 13:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg escreveu: > > hi, > > > > In my quest for softcoding context-defs, I will need to revisit the > > \alias system. This is not on the top of my todo, but I'd like to hear > > any protests early. > > > > I suggest that the \alias mechanism is scrapped altogether, and replaced > > with something else: > > - junk Bottom alias, instead make is_bottom_context accessible from > > scheme. - other aliases are replaced with appropriate boolean context > > properties, with more intuitive names (e.g. property 'isLyricMelody > > replaces current \alias Voice). > > > > I think this will be an improvement, because we remove the concept of > > aliases, which confuses users (at least it confuses me a bit); in > > addition we don't need to do anything extra to softcode aliases. > > I don't understand. How will this work in practice? Ie. if I do > > \set Timing.measurePosition = #.. > > how will it be processed?
We will have to change that to an \applyContext which finds/creates a context with the 'timing property set, something like \findContextWithPredicate #'timing \set measurePosition = #... -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
