Re: Autobeaming

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/2/10 1:51 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Actually, I intend to propose that \overrideBeamSettings be replaced with
\xxxTimeSignatureSettings (which should be acceptable because
\overrideBeamSettings is not part of a stable release).

Thanks,

Carl