or to put it another way... how would I know that Score.BarNumber is a context property rather than a element description?
and why isn't the accidental style a context property or an element description? :-) Damian > > > On 26 Mar 2011, at 22:13, Francisco Vila wrote: > >> 2011/3/26 Damian leGassick <damianlegass...@mac.com>: >>> Hi all >>> >>> I've been using lilypond for years but I still can't figure out the >>> rationale for >>> >>> e.g. >>> >>> bar numbers - why us it: >>> >>> \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility blah (note capital B) >>> >>> but >>> >>> \set Score.currentBarNumber #blah (note camelCase) >>> >>> and why #(set-accidental-style etc >>> >>> and not >>> >>> \set Score.accidentalStyle or even \set Score.Accidental style >>> >>> is there any easy way to remember whether it's \set \override or #(set*? >> >> set is for context properties and override is for element >> descriptions, according to >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/set-versus-override.html >> >> as for #(set-whatever , they are predefined one-word commands for >> convenience, which give values to internal variables that are not >> context properties or element descriptions. >> -- >> Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) >> www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
