Kieren MacMillan <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> writes: > Hi David, > >>> I, for one, would love to see a list of all properties that are >>> implied to have an effect on a grob [by interface inclusion] but don’t >>> actually [due to lack of implementation]. >> >> The proposal would not distinguish between properties having an effect >> and properties not having an effect. >> >>> That would have saved me a lot of frustration when trying to set >>> certain properties of certain grobs in the past. >> >> And you think when all properties of an interface are explicitly listed >> for a grob even if they don't have an effect, that would help? > > If they were split up into sections, absolutely. > > SETTABLE PROPERTIES: > > a > b > c [via x_interface] > _______ > > WARNING: THE FOLLOWING INTERFACE PROPERTIES HAVE NO EFFECT ON THIS GROB: > > x > y > z > > We have “Known Issues & Warnings” in other parts of the doc — why not here?
Because it is wrong. The best you could hope for would be "WARNING: the following interface properties may or may not have an effect on this grob:" And you'd get a humongous list of warnings on every single grob, taking up a lot more size than the actual properties with grob-specific defaults. -- David Kastrup
