Re: Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 13:16, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Our thoughts on this matter aren't entirely set in stone. Since you've > already added a lot of properties, we can't save precious development > time by not using properties :-) Maybe you could review all of them, > and prune the ones which a

Re: Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-06 Thread Bruce McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:59:03AM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > looking through your patch, I have the impression that you have a lot > of properties. Having everything tweakable seems nice at first, but it > makes the program more difficult to understand (as it pollutes the > namespace for pr

Re: Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Since not every tuning property is useful, our current strategy is to > > hard-code most constants, except for paddings and thicknesses (and > > other parameters that we imagine to be changed frequently), and > > respond to any request for more tunability by adding an

Re: Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 05:50, Carl Sorensen wrote: > I'd be very happy to get CVS access. How do I proceed? > I believe I can now answer my own question. I went to the savannah website (http://savannah.gnu.org), clicked on "New User via SSL", answered the questions, created a public GPG key, cr

Re: Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 02:51, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > in particular, the thickness for fret-diagrams should not be renamed > fret-thickness, but it should work like thickness works for other > grobs. > OK. I can easily fix that one. That's in fact how it was originally written. Carl

Re: Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 02:59, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > looking through your patch, I have the impression that you have a lot > of properties. Having everything tweakable seems nice at first, but it > makes the program more difficult to understand (as it pollutes the > namespace for properties) and

Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Currently, define-grob-properties.scm is (almost) alphabetical by > property. This makes it nice for avoiding the collisions that occur > when two different grobs have a property with the same name, but makes > it very difficult to see all the properties associated with

Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I've just added the properties for fret-diagrams, and they're scattered > > throughout define-grob-properties.scm. I'd be happy to collect them in > > one section if it's preferred. > > the problem is that we try to minimise the number of properties, and > reuse them

Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Currently, define-grob-properties.scm is (almost) alphabetical by > property. This makes it nice for avoiding the collisions that occur > when two different grobs have a property with the same name, but makes > it very difficult to see all the properties associated with

Preferred use of define-grob-properties.scm

2004-07-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
Currently, define-grob-properties.scm is (almost) alphabetical by property. This makes it nice for avoiding the collisions that occur when two different grobs have a property with the same name, but makes it very difficult to see all the properties associated with a given grob. Would it make sens