Noeck <[email protected]> writes:
> Inside a \with context or for the default context, this is short and
> nice to write. But it gets more lengthy for general settings in the
> layout block when different contexts are addressed. I always have to
> look it up as for the former #' syntax.
Perhaps time to learn what each line means.
> Is there a shorter way for a general setting like this?
> \layout {
> \context {
context definition follows:
> \Staff
like \music copying a music variable, \Staff copies a context
definition. The salient point is that this context definition contains
a \name "Staff", so without overriding \name (which is perfectly
feasible), the new definition will get stored back into \Staff again.
> \consists "Ambitus_engraver"
This changes the context definition.
> }
> }
>
> Would it be difficult to implement something like this?
>
> \layout {
> \consists Staff.Ambitus_engraver
> }
That would only make any kind of sense if you could actually write
\consists Staff.Ambitus_engraver also in mid-music. However, engravers
are not usually prepared to be added and removed from already live
contexts, so this would likely cause huge messes and new bugs.
> or
>
> \layout {
> \add Staff.Ambitus_engraver
> }
That does not resemble anything else. I'm not in favor of adding random
syntactic variations of already existing features.
--
David Kastrup
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