Re: Using \with {...} {...} instead of << xxx.set ...=... {...} >> in the documentation?

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you want the same setting in  all your TabStaff contexts in a .ly file
or in a set of .ly files, then the recommended solution is instead to 
redefine
the default definition of TabStaff, see section "Changing context 
default settings"
(such a definition can be put in a separate .ly file to be included 
whenever it's
needed, see section "Style sheets").

I'd say that the \with construct is in a way more advanced than using \set,
in general. At least if you consider how things are described currently
in the manual. You are right that the user in this particular case has 
to know
that things happen in the TabStaff context, but if you instead consider
the example in sect. "Selecting notation font size", it's easy even for the
beginner to come up with an example like
\relative c'{ \set fontSize = #-2 c d  e f }
whereas you have to know about explicitly instantiating voices to do
\new Voice \with {fontSize = #-2 } \relative c'{ c d e f }

  /Mats


Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Hi, 
> Looking at the documentation for non-guitar tab staves 
> (http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Non_002dguitar-tablatures.html ), 
> I realized that the example might be simplified. In particular, in the 
> following snippet, both staves look exactly the same:
>
> \version "2.11.34"
>
> \new TabStaff \with { stringTunings = #'(-5 -10 -15 -20)} 
>   { a,4 c' a e' e c' a e' }
>
> \new TabStaff <<
>   \set TabStaff.stringTunings = #'(-5 -10 -15 -20)
>   { a,4 c' a e' e c' a e' }
>   
>
>
> I think the first one is much more natural, since it creates a TabStaff with a 
> given tuning. For the second one, one needs to know abit more about the 
> internals (i.e. you need to know that you are inside a TabStaff, and you need 
> to create parallel music)...  
>
> Is there any reason for the current (second) version, and is there any 
> official preference for any of the two forms?
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
>   

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