Comment #27 on issue 2883 by [email protected]: Patch: Make arguments like Context.GrobName accessible as symbol lists
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2883
Ok, after mulling this over, putting this patch series in, particularly the fully invasive syntax, is blocked on the 2.16.1 release, since that is the point of time when it was planned to merge the translation branch fully into 2.17. The change in footnote syntax is not compatible with the old documentation, and doing parallel convert-ly runs on both master as well as translation will result in wagonloads of merge conflicts.
So before we do some convert-ly-heavy work on master, we better wait until translation arrives. No countdown before that.
In the mean time, you might want to try looking at the dev/syntax branch.
