Kieren MacMillan <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> writes: > Hi David, > >> whether the one-dimensional outside-staff-priority system >> is even well-suited for expressing the desired rules/constraints > > Are you able to say a little more about what you’re thinking there? > (The meaning I infer is that a two-dimensional system could allow for > a L/R priority, which is a long-standing feature wish of mine — > somewhere in the list archives are examples of me asking whether, > e.g., tempo markings and rehearsal marks could automatically “slide” > left or right instead of just up and down.)
I was not thinking in spatial dimensions. Maybe "linear" or "well-ordered" would have been a better expression. The priority system essentially states the order of type X and type Y independent of whether a grob of type Z needs to be accommodated as well. -- David Kastrup