Re: Funny Bug or feature?. instrumentNames rendered in reverse order than music

[Francisco Vila]

2010/10/8 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello.  This makes figures attached to notes to be printed in the
>> expected (ascending) order, but instrument names in reverse
>> (descending) order.  Another exciting case later below.
>
> I don't see what the problem is.  Lilypond does not, as far as I can
> see, guarantee any particular order of evaluation here.
>
> This is neither a bug nor a feature as far as I can see.  There is
> nothing that guarantees this will be different, there is nothing that
> guarantees that it will stay like this.  There is nothing that
> guarantees you'll get the same behavior on two different runs even.

I partially agree.  The part I don't agree is that we need counters,
the snippet implements a counter and it doesn't work, but the code
looks right.  If we'd understand the logic behind rendering order, we
could do the right thing.

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