Re: Merging different fonts

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > necessary? If not, then we can skip that option, and simply never
> > merge if styles are different.
> 
> I considered that, but I saw the pattern for different heads and
> different dottings.  Not having much choral experience (where I
> suspect this comes into play), I don't see a lot of reason for those
> properties, either, but lilypond provides them.  So I figured I'd
> also provide a mechanism for the existing behavior as part of my
> fix.  I was just trying to leave as much flexibility in

The other properties reflect some guitar and piano practices.  I don't
see use of a merge-different-style, so please leave it out for now. We
can always put it back in later.

> function, and used it for my patch, too.
> 
> I have been playing around the last couple of weeks with the autochange 
> function
> (also for use with handbells - expect a patch in a couple of days), and I've
> been learning quite a bit about object and context properties.  I now would 
> use
> the property directly, but I didn't realize how it all fit together when I 
> wrote
> this patch.

I haven't integrated your previous patch due to the questions I
had. Could you (re)implement the functionality as you would do it now,
and send me the patch, so I can apply it to the CVS repo?  Thanks!

 
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