Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053)

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Tue 30 Aug 2011, 12:53 Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:45:20PM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote:
> > In current master, #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5) does exactly what 
> > #'length = #5 did a week ago.
> 
> There is essentially no different in going frmo
>   \override Stem #'length = #5
> to
>   \override Stem #'Y-extent = #5
>
> as far as users are concerned, that would be much better than
>   \override Stem #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5)
> 
> as far as I'm concerned... I've never even seen a (foo::bar x)
> command before!  If we could still use #5, that would be
> preferred.
Please, excuse my jumping in.

Being a user, I often used to override 'Y-extent for some specific purposes:

{
  \override Stem #'Y-extent = #'(-10 . 0)
  c''_\fermata
}

Yes, it's a stupid example, but it's quite good that 'length and 'Y-extent can
do _different_ things.

begin - end = extent -- isn't it "simply default value" for extent?

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