Paul Morris <p...@paulwmorris.com> writes: > David Kastrup wrote >> You mean with regard to patches? Let's first figure out what we want to >> arrive at. Personally, I'm not really enthused about any proposal >> including my own ones yet. But maybe we can manage to find something >> making most people happier yet. > > I like the idea of something like \appearance and working out a general > solution. Some suggestions for a verb name: \replace, \redraw (I like how > redraw emphasizes the visual aspect.) > > As a first step (just working with \override X.X.stencil =) could there be > an easier way to just override a stencil with a markup (that gets converted > into a stencil)?
That would end up a very invasive mess. A stencil is really a stencil and referenced as such. Stencils intended to be replaceable with markups tend to have ly:text-interface::print as their function which then references the markup in the "text" property. > \override Score.TimeSignature.stencil = > \markup \fraction-list "-" #'((6 8)(5 4)) > > Maybe LilyPond could automatically convert a markup into a stencil for you > in this case? (Maybe that's a bad idea since it would obscure the > difference between markups and stencils?) Or if you could manually convert > the markup to a stencil with something like: > > \override Score.TimeSignature.stencil = > \markupToStencil \markup \fraction-list "-" #'((6 8)(5 4)) Markups cannot be converted to stencils without knowledge of the respective layout/properties. They can be derived from a grob, but something like \markupToStencil does not have an inherent relation to a grob: if \markupToStencil were to return a grob callback (like you can use in a stencil override), it would magically fail to work as a stencil anywhere but in a stencil override. So it makes more sense to devise a command that _includes_ the stencil override (or tweak) since it will not work as a stencil anywhere else. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
