Texinfo isn't too hard to figure out, so no worries about that part. It's
just a matter of time and energy to write it up. Until I'm properly settled
in my new place and have my home office set up here, about all I have the
bandwidth for is quick replies on the list. Hopefully it won't take too
much longer before I have some attention to spare.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 11:32 PM Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> > I just meant that it might not be obvious that the syntax given for
> > changing the value of pre-existing alist keys also works to add
> > arbitrary new keys to the alist.  It also might not be obvious that
> > in this case, custom key-value pairs added to
> > property-defaults.fonts will function properly as text
> > font-families.
>
> Indeed, the NR doesn't show that you can add custom 'shorthands' for
> font families.  Can you provide some documentation together with an
> example, telling me where to insert it most appropriately in the NR?
> I can then convert everything to Texinfo syntax and submit a Merge
> Request.
>
> Or maybe it would be more simpler to add a snippet to the LSR that can
> be eventually integrated to the NR.
>
> > There are other examples of property values, such as font variants,
> > where Lilypond hard codes a specific schema of expected symbols or
> > strings, and ignores anything other than those.
>
> Yes, in this case the Scheme stuff is just an interface to the
> hard-coded values of the Pango library.
>
>
>     Werner
>

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