Re: Issue 673 in lilypond: problem with order of \consists

[lilypond]

Comment #7 on issue 673 by address@hidden: problem with order of  
\consists
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=673

On 27/04/2010 13:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Graham and James:

> > James is ready, but you don't need to send an actual patch.

> Reviewing the situation, I'm not sure I *need* to send a patch: the  
> Learning [!!] page

>        
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/learning/adding-and-removing-engravers#Adding-and-removing-engravers>

> has a link at the bottom to the Notation page

>        
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/modifying-context-plug_002dins>

> which, in turn, has the clear and helpful note

> "Usually the order in which the engravers are specified does not matter,  
> but in a few special cases the order is important, for example where one  
> engraver writes a property and another reads it, or where one engraver  
> creates a grob and another must process it. The order in which the  
> engravers are specified is the order in which they are called to carry  
> out their processing.

> The following orderings are important: the Bar_engraver must normally be  
> first, and the New_fingering_engraver must come before the  
> Script_column_engraver. There may be others with ordering dependencies."

> So what should we add to either page to make it clearer?

> Thanks,
> Kieren.