Re: What's the idea with the $papers stack?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:32 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
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> The only place where it is "pushed" is when creating a _new_ book, and
> then it is cleared out immediately before it.  What kind of pushing is
> that supposed to be?  What does that even mean?  A paper block in a book
> definition manipulated the top book entry, except when looking at a book
> identifier.  So the following crashes:
>
>
>
> Does anybody have a clue what the $papers stack is supposed to be for?
> When accessing paper variables, LilyPond looks through that "stack".
> That's where things like book-specific filenames will be kept.

Output definitions (paper, bookpaper) are nested so you can set global
layout at book level, and still have per-movement overrides. Stacking
N output definitions is as much work as stacking 2, so I guess I made
it generic.

Of course, few people if any ever used this feature.

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