-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 February 2010 16:24:57 you wrote: > Would there be any disadvantages to replace Axis_group_engraver by > Hara_kiri_engraver in the default definition of Staff, and just use > \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-empty = ##t or ##f to switch > between ordinary and RemoveEmpty versions? Is the book-keeping overhead > in the Hara_kiri_engraver so large that it would increase the > computational time significantly or could there be any other > disadvantages. > > This should be a much simpler solution than trying to fiddle with > advanced Scheme stuff to work around limitations in the syntax.
Absolutely! So, is there any reason agains using Harakiri by default? > I still think it's relevant to have a syntax difference between > - Copy the current definition of context type Foo > - Take settings from a variable called Foo Yes, you are right that their syntax right now looks the same. However, how often do you really want to store a previous state of a context into a variable and reset the context later on? Most of the time, you rather want to define a set of context modifications to be applied at a later time (like in the RESC case), instead of completely restoring a context. Unfortunately, this feature is missing from LilyPond... Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * Edition Kainhofer Music Publishing, http://www.edition-kainhofer.com/ * LilyPond music typesetting software, http://www.lilypond.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt2s1oACgkQTqjEwhXvPN1HKwCePfekNbwxD30FcRX2r11wfViy QPQAoMDYSdzMvb93vpXlcLEYcPdwYyKP =x/UZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
