"Trevor Daniels" <[email protected]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, May 05, 2015 5:22 PM > >>> Well, yes, I knew that, but the effect is that existing definitions >>> are overridden iff they appear later, while new definitions are added, >>> so definitions assigned early can act as defaults. >> >> And why wouldn't that work in your use scenario? >> >> What is wrong with setting a layout definition in the satb.ly template >> that then gets amended by the user? >> > > The answer to both these questions is that the satb.ly template > comes after the user's code in the input file. So the overriding > operates the wrong way round.
So maybe just override when there is no setting yet? Isn't that what the template does with music variables as well? -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
