Hi David, > I think it's rather obvious that we won't get something that caters for > every format without actually giving the user the equivalent of > providing a formatting function (in the form of a markup command): even > a format string requires a certain order of elements. > > We might provide a stock formatting function that consults the details > and thus can cater for the most common use cases. But trying to capture > all is just going to make for an incomprehensible and complex interface > that still does not work for all use cases.
I'm so glad you said this! This is exactly what I suggested to Harm (off-line), and I think it's precisely the way to accomplish the best of all possible worlds. Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
