On Friday 05 February 2010 18:05:52 you wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer > > <reinh...@kainhofer.com> wrote: > > I found out the hard way that apparently adding \RemoveEmptyStaffContext > > globally to a score will erase some previous settings. > > Yes. \removeEmptyStaffContext copies the new context over the > previous one. Or something like this.
Yes, it works as follows: The \removeEmptyStaffContext variable stores the newly created Staff-derived context in the init file (i.e. when removeEmptyStaffContext is defined, so it contains only the default settings for Staff). All subsequent changes to the Staff context are of couse not applied to the removeEMptyStaffContext variable. When you insert RESC into your score, however, the current Staff context is replaced by the value of the RESC, which does not contain any of your changes. So, while it is clear how things work when you know the internals, I definitely regard this a bad bug, as something innocent as automatically removing empty staves has lethal side-effects (e.g. on figured bass and all different unrelated areas!). So, from a developer perspective, the current behavior might be expected, but it is definitely not what any sane USER would expect. And for me this is the definition of a bug. I think RESC should be somehow recoded to apply only the relevant changes when it is actually called, but not store the whole Staff context at definition time. Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * Edition Kainhofer Music Publishing, http://www.edition-kainhofer.com/ * LilyPond music typesetting software, http://www.lilypond.org/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
