Re: Context aliases

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg escreveu:
> hi,
>
> In my quest for softcoding context-defs, I will need to revisit the \alias 
> system. This is not on the top of my todo, but I'd like to hear any protests 
> early.
>
> I suggest that the \alias mechanism is scrapped altogether, and replaced with 
> something else:
> - junk Bottom alias, instead make is_bottom_context accessible from scheme.
> - other aliases are replaced with appropriate boolean context properties, with 
> more intuitive names (e.g. property 'isLyricMelody replaces current \alias 
> Voice).
>
> I think this will be an improvement, because we remove the concept of aliases, 
> which confuses users (at least it confuses me a bit); in addition we don't 
> need to do anything extra to softcode aliases.

I don't understand. How will this work in practice?  Ie. if I do

  \set Timing.measurePosition = #..

how will it be processed?

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