On 11/1/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The current mechanism to get solid versus dashed lines in LilyPond has > been irritating me for several years. We do have the option to set > both #'style = #'line and #'style = #dashed-line but currently both > give the same result and you instead have to set #'dash-fraction = #'() > to get a solid line. > > Below, you can find a patch that gives a much more intuitive behavior, > namely that #'style=#'line gives a solid line whereas #'style=#'dashed-line > gives ... guess what. This will fix > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=505 > > I realize that this might break some existing code and have tried to fix it > in the regression test files I could find (the example line-arrows.ly in LSR > has to be updated correspondingly). Also, the current behavior is mentioned > at one place in the manual, which should be updated in GDP. > > Does anybody have any objections or can I submit? > Maybe I should also add a rule in convert-ly that warns everybody who > has set > the dash-fraction property.
FWIW, I find this interface to the dashing syntax *much* preferrable. Thank you, Mats; I really hope this makes it into the standard distros. -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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