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Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053)
From: |
Mike Solomon |
Subject: |
Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053) |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:22:20 +0200 |
On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:45:20PM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote:
>> In current master, #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5) does exactly what #'length
>> = #5 did a week ago.
>
> There is essentially no different in going frmo
> \override Stem #'length = #5
> to
> \override Stem #'Y-extent = #5
>
> as far as users are concerned, that would be much better than
> \override Stem #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5)
>
> as far as I'm concerned... I've never even seen a (foo::bar x)
> command before! If we could still use #5, that would be
> preferred.
>
To use #'Y-extent = #5, we'd have to invent a new type for Y-extent
(number-or-pair?) and then come up with rules for how to convert the number
into a pair for certain grobs and how to throw warning messages otherwise.
This is certainly doable, but I'm not sure how kosher it is UI-wise.
Cheers,
MS
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), (continued)
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Mike Solomon, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Graham Percival, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Mike Solomon, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Graham Percival, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Dmytro O. Redchuk, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Dmytro O. Redchuk, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Mike Solomon, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Dmytro O. Redchuk, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Mike Solomon, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053),
Mike Solomon <=
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Mike Solomon, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Keith OHara, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Mike Solomon, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), David Kastrup, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Reinhold Kainhofer, 2011/08/30
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/29
- Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053), Graham Percival, 2011/08/29