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Re: Reorganizing the contents of the \paper block


From: David Rogers
Subject: Re: Reorganizing the contents of the \paper block
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:31:50 -0800

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:52:54 -0600, Trevor Bača wrote:

> ... But maybe this logical, user-centric division can be
> handled perfectly cleanly just in the docs? The docs for settings can
> then look something like this (and this is obviously just a sketch,
> some pseudocode for the actual docs that I'll clean up long before
> sending to Graham):
> 
> "LilyPond supports 47 different different page layout and setup
> settings. These settings divide into 5 different functional areas.
> These five functional areas are:
> 
> * page dimensions
> * page margins
> * headers and footers
> * the layout of systems
> * the location of line- and page-breaks
> 
> In addition, LilyPond input files support three different places where
> these different settings can be made. These three levels where
> settings can be made are:
> 
> * score level
> * book level
> * top level
> 
> Some settings can be made only at score level and book level. Other
> settings can be made at all three levels. In the detailed descriptions
> that follow, we note whether a setting can be set at 2 or 3 levels.
> 
> < insert descriptions of all settings here, according to the five
> functional areas given above >."
> 
> 
> So how does this sound?



This type of plan makes good sense to me. This non-programmer user can see how 
it works, and I would be happy to use and explain it. I hope it's workable from 
the Lilypond internal code point of view.

David




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