Re: Life of a Grob

[Joe Neeman]

On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:21 -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> I stumbled across your "Life of a Grob" feature while I was looking up stuff
> on Figured Bass.
> 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-09/msg00069.html>
> 
> I think this would be really good to add to either the CG or the Extending
> LilyPond manual.
> 
> Can you tell me what the current status of this is?

I don't really make use of it anymore, since I've become familiar enough
with the source that it isn't really useful. But it should still work
(there is a regression test, graphviz.ly, and it seems to be ok). I'd
suggest the CG as a more appropriate place than Extending, because the
feature is really only helpful if you want to dig into the C++ source.

If this sort of feature is still useful to anyone, it might be cool to
extend it to parent/child relationships (ie. to allow scheme breakpoints
whenever a parent/child bond is added or changed) since such
relationships aren't documented anywhere and they're a bit hard to
trace.

Cheers,
Joe