On Saturday, December 18, 2021, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> On 2021-12-17 4:28 pm, Paolo Prete wrote: > >> The example Aaron showed already added *logic* to the template [...] >> > > To be fair, all I showed was the default setting for oddFooterMarkup from > titling-init.ly. Nothing added; that is simply how LilyPond works out of > the box. > > Hello Aaron, this is not what I meant with "added logic to the template". I just noted that you used some logic for defining a spefic behavior of the basic template. And this is what I would like to avoid, unless I wrap it. Therefore, when you write: > Your original query was about placing something at the bottom of a page, > and the response you have received is to leverage oddFooterMarkup as the > most direct and minimally disruptive method. > > > ... This is not right. My original query was not simply "how to place something at the bottom of the page". I explicitily added a constraint: "without using the footer markup". For the reasons I explained later. I prefer to set properties of a class/structure which hides details for this kind of stuff, instead of adding/exposing customizations/logic. This is how I proceed, when programming. From what I see, your approach is a low-level approach, therefore it should be wrapped (so to shorten the code and improve the readibility). But wrapping has some other disadvantages, as I explained later. Then I concluded that, in my general case, the best thing is to use multiple tools (which has disadvantages too, of course, but I consider it a better compromise) Best, P > -- Aaron Hill >
