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

[Mike Solomon]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:53 PM, 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.
> 

To use #'Y-extent = #5, we'd have to invent a new type for Y-extent 
(number-or-pair?) and then come up with rules for how to convert the number 
into a pair for certain grobs and how to throw warning messages otherwise.  
This is certainly doable, but I'm not sure how kosher it is UI-wise.

Cheers,
MS