On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:45:20PM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote: >> In current master, #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5) does exactly what #'length >> = #5 did a week ago. > > There is essentially no different in going frmo > \override Stem #'length = #5 > to > \override Stem #'Y-extent = #5 > > as far as users are concerned, that would be much better than > \override Stem #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5) > > as far as I'm concerned... I've never even seen a (foo::bar x) > command before! If we could still use #5, that would be > preferred. >
To use #'Y-extent = #5, we'd have to invent a new type for Y-extent (number-or-pair?) and then come up with rules for how to convert the number into a pair for certain grobs and how to throw warning messages otherwise. This is certainly doable, but I'm not sure how kosher it is UI-wise. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
