Re: property setting

[Han-Wen]

address@hidden writes:
> Well. Will it be okay that I add the aliasses to the contexts?
> No syntax changes, just some \aliasses in engraver-init.ly

no prob.
 
> > I think that the current behavior is just as bad as your suggestion. I
> > would prefer that the kind of advanced behavior you want be done with
> > an advanced feature such as evaluating Scheme code. I even recall
> > posting a suggestion on how to implement such a feature.
> 
> Oh, yes, thanks for reminding me about that.
> Your suggestion was a new command, \applycontext, that makes it possible 
> to read context properties in the expression that sets them. The 
> motivation was the ottava-command that needs to read the current 
> central-c-position.
> Afaics this has nothing to do with this current issue, however.
> - Your scheme function makes it easier to decide the value to assign.
> My problem is how to find the right context in which to do the assign.

ah, ok. but if you're doing Scheme, you could just as well search the
tree of contexts using fancy Scheme code, right?  

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