Re: [Gnu-music-discuss] Inheritance?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

On Wednesday, 20 September 2000, Scott Ballantyne writes:
> In the manual, I read:
> 
>   Properties that are set in one context are inherited by all of the
>   contained contexts. This means that a property valid for the Voice
>   context can be set in the Score (for example) and thus take effect
>   in all Voice contexts.
> 
> So I tried:
> 
> -------
> \score{
>    \notes \context Voice
>       {
>    \property Voice.tupletBracketVisibility = ##f
>    \property Voice.tupletNumberVisibility = ##f

As the quoted text indicates, inheritance works from parent to
child, not the other way around.  The Repeat-engraver is included
in the staff-context, so it won't see anything in its childs,
eg a voice.

>  
>        \first
>       }
>       \paper
>        {
>        \translator{
>           \StaffContext
>         \remove "Time_signature_engraver";
>         \remove "Bar_number_engraver";
>         }
>       }
> }
> ---------
> 
> But none of the Voice context's in 'first' are affected by the
> above. So, either I'm doing something wrong (probably) or there's a
> bug either in lilypond or the manual.
> 
> sdb
> 
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Jan.

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