On 25-Feb-06, at 3:01 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Graham Percival wrote:
In fact, why not simply have
\paper {
paper-size = "a4"
}
I have nothing against scheme expressions, but I don't see why the
paper size (and global staff size) need scheme. If we could define
them like normal \paper or \layout variables, we could avoid some
newbie confusion.
because setting paper-size implies setting line-width and a number of
other variables. Check out the definition of set-paper-size for
details.
Yes, it does a bunch of stuff "under the hood", but a user need not be
concerned with it. I'm just wondering if we could do
// pseudocode
if ( (\paper-option)==(paper-size $1 $2) ) then
#(set-default-paper-size $1 $2)
I freely admit my lack of experience in programming, but I can't
imagine how some syntactic sugar like this would change anything
substantive in the way that lily works internally.
If we could add two such rules -- paper-size and staff-size -- then we
could avoid #(...) constructs entirely for simple scores. (mostly the
default-paper-size... I wish that everybody used A4 paper, but it's
hard to find in North America. And if you want to print at university,
you're stuck with usletter. :(
I have absolutely no objection to requiring explicit scheme expressions
for other stuff, but IMO these two items are pretty basic.
Cheers,
- Graham
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