Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:13:51PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > For varying time signatures changes could still
>> > be made via \overrideTimeSignatureSettings.
>> 
>> I consider it a grave user interface mistake to have some things work
>> only with \overrideTimeSignatureSettings,  but not with
>> \override timeSignatureSettings.
>
> Yes, it is.  Fixing this has been planned for a year.
>
> Why not "just do it" now?  Well, we don't have a definite answer
> for what to change it _to_, and we get enough grief for changing
> the syntax.

I don't count something as "changing the syntax" if it does not change
the parser and no previously valid code becomes invalid.  Which, as far
as I understand, would be the case here.

-- 
David Kastrup



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