Re: how does uniform-stretching work?

[Mats Bengtsson]

The syntax already exists:
\new Staff \with{...}{...}

What could be added is a warning printout saying that the setting does
not have any effect, if it's done after the creation of the context.

   /Mats

Juergen Reuter wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > there is only 1 SpacingSpanner in the entire score. You can only 
> > override it at the start.
>
> 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:
>
> \new Staff = "chant" [StaffSymbol #'line-count = #4] { \myMusic }
>
> If the user tries to modify line-count at any other place than at 
> context instantiation, lily could emit an error, saying that this 
> property may only be initialized once at context instantiation.
>
> However, if there are only very few such properties, then it's 
> probably not at all worth introducing a new syntactical construct.
>
> Greetings,
> Juergen
>
>
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