Re: [PATCH]: Allow context modifications to be stored in a variable and inserted into \context or \with

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 18:04:37 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
>> Am Freitag, 12. März 2010 14:41:20 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
>> > Our problems with \RemoveEmptyStaffContext resetting previous context
>> > modifications highlights one problem we have: So far, it was not possible
>> > to store a bunch of context modifications into a variable and apply them
>> > later on.
>> 
>> An updated patch is now available at
>>     http://codereview.appspot.com/475041
>
> Before I finally push this (I assume the silence means approval ;-) ), I just 
> want to bring up the issue how to name the new command to store context 
> modifications.
>
> Initially I used \contextModifications {...}, but as Neil points out, all 
> parser keywords are supposed to be lowercase, so now we have the ugly-looking 
> \contextmodifications {...}...
>
> What do you think of this name, it is okay or too long/unclear?

Can't you just use

whatever = \with { \remove "Some_engraver" }

for those objects?

It would seem that this syntax is not yet taken.

-- 
David Kastrup