Re: how does uniform-stretching work?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Juergen Reuter wrote:

> Just a half-baken, weired idea (and not at all thoroughly thought 
> through):  Are there much more examples of properties that can be 
> overridden only once at start?  For example, StaffSymbol #'line-count 
> comes into my mind.  If yes, and if the syntax for 3.0 will change 
> anyway heavily, you may want to model these properties as arguments that 
> are passed to a context upon instantiation, maybe something like:

> However, if there are only very few such properties, then it's probably 
> not at all worth introducing a new syntactical construct.

It doesn't work like that. For instance, with \startStaff you can start 
new staves.

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