Re: Issue 569 in lilypond: Consistency in property names: beam-thickness

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2008/2/7, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:
> > Issue 569: Consistency in property names: beam-thickness
> > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=569
> >
> > Comment #1 by hanwenn:
> > I prefer to go for beam-thickness ; I think doc strings with
> > exceptions and
> > properties with different 'types' are messy
> Fine with me! Note, though, that this example is just one of many, where the
> same property name is reused for many different purposes and different
> sets of allowed values for each purpose. The most striking example is
> probably
> the "style" property, where the current documentation is extremely
> uninformative
> for this reason.

You have a point there.  However, the 'style setting does not have a
reasonable default (like "measured in linethickness").  It should be
documented in the respective grob-interface.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen