On 11-Feb-06, at 2:49 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote:
On Friday 10 February 2006 21.47, Don Blaheta wrote:
Would it make sense to permit \new Foo = "bar", but have it be an
error
if a "bar" context already existed?
That's exactly what I'm hoping for. :)
I'm not proposing that \context Foo = "bar" *couldn't* create a new
context, though, as I don't think there's any error-checking benefit
to
that and it would break all the old files.
Again, exactly.
Maybe \context could be renamed to something else, such as \addto
Staff=bar,
since its primary use will be to append music to an existing context.
The
word "context" might sound scary/technical to a beginner.
How much do beginners need to use \context, though? (if we allow \new
Voice="alto")
(this question is aimed at vocal music, since I've only used \context
*once* in all my string writing, that that was a pretty weird case)
Right now beginners need to use \context for vocal voices, and can
either use \context or \new for all the other stuff. If we allow \new
Voice="alto", then AFAIK beginners can use \new for everything.
\context would only be used for playing fancy games with stuff.
If we keep \context as it is, we avoid adding another rule to
convert-ly and getting accused of breaking backwards compatibility
again. :)
(particularly since convert-ly won't know if a \context should be
turned into \new or \addto)
Cheers,
- Graham
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