Re: run lilypond-book on internals

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> >  Also, this
> > should not really occur: usually the 'style property is used for the
> > same purpose (switching the style of the grob), but it's just the set
> > of supported values changes from grob to grob.
>
> This really attracts my interest: is this true for everything?  Or
> alternatively, *could* this be true for all properties?

I think you have confused yourself here (or rather, I don't follow
you at all below). Not all grobs have a style property and the style 
property does not influence any other property value.

  /Mats

> ie if a property contains a #'style property, the only function of
> #'style is to assign values to other properties.
>
> Ideally, this would work the other way as well: the *only*
> property which sets other properties is #'style.  Or possibly
> #'style-foo, #'style-bar, etc.
>
> This would simply the explanation of how properties work.  In the
> internals, we could discuss #'style at the top of each grob, then
> have the list of properties (and their docs from
> Documentation/internals/ ) below it.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham