Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold <at> kainhofer.com> writes: > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: > > By way of standard practice, is it better to define > > figuredBassStackingDirUpOff as an \override (which makes it absolute, but > > keeps adding to the props list), or as a \revert, which undoes an override > > and thus prevents the props list from continuing to grow, but may not have > > the desired effet (i.e. if \revert is used, two *Ons followed by one *Off > > will result in an *On remaining). > > Really? I always thought that \revert would simply set the prop back to its > default value (as opposed to undoing just the last override). Actually, I had > wished several times that \override and \revert would simply work on a stack > of settings, so that one can easily restore the previous setting. However, it > doesn't work that way. >
You are correct, of course. I worked through this more than a year ago on Fret Diagrams, and I remembered my conclusion wrong. Thanks for the catch. Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
