Re: Convert staff-spaces to mm on the fly?

[Saul Tobin]

Would it work to run in the global scope the same function that initializes the units within output-def modules?

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 11:38 AM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

Timothy Lanfear <timothy@lanfear.me> writes:

> On 29/12/2024 12:57, Richard Shann wrote:
>> Is there a way of writing
>>
>> \override #'(line-width . 100)
>>
>> so that the value is interpreted as mm rather than staff-spacings?
>>
>> Richard
>>
> Recent 2.25 releases have the scheme function to-staff-space,
> Otherwise you can get the conversion factor from the paper.

Arguably within markup, the layout block should be the active module.
That would make this just

\override #`(line-width . ,(* 100 mm))

But at the current point of time, this is not the case, and the above
does not work.

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David Kastrup