Re: Autobeaming

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> only with \overrideTimeSignatureSettings,  but not with
>>> \override timeSignatureSettings.
>>
>> Yes, it is.  Fixing this has been planned for a year.
>>
>> Why not "just do it" now?  Well, we don't have a definite answer
>> for what to change it _to_, and we get enough grief for changing
>> the syntax.
>
> I don't count something as "changing the syntax" if it does not change
> the parser and no previously valid code becomes invalid.  Which, as far
> as I understand, would be the case here.

Sorry, I was thinking about \overrideBeamSettings, which has been
around for a few months (a year?).  You're quite right; there's no
reason not to change \overrideTimeSignatureSettings now.

(it might be changed again in a few months to come in line with GLISS
decisions, but that's a separate issue)

Cheers,
- Graham