Re: \partcombine and decrescendo spanner

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Michael,
>
>> Nice.
>
> It's Harm's, if I recall correctly…
>
>> What is \etc ?
>
> A rather brilliant addition by David K. (I believe?),

Well, it's a shortcut for certain kinds of music function definitions.
Nothing that would not be available by more explicit means so I wasn't
really sure it was a good idea.  But when it is applicable, it's sort of
tacky.

> which essentially says "now go back to whatever follows in the 'real'
> code stream". See
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/substitution-function-examples>.

Well, I'm apparently not the best writer of documentation: when
describing a feature for hiding complexity, I don't manage to confine
the description's complexity in a similar manner.

-- 
David Kastrup