Re: define-grobs.scm properties not alphabetical

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Graham
Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:55:08PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>>
>> Any reason why properties listed in define-grobs.scm
>> are not in alphabetical order? Sometimes I get a little
>> frustrated looking stuff up in IR 3.1.
>
> That file contains:
> ;;; todo:: reorder sensibly.
>
> and IMO alphabetical is a sensible order.
>
> That said, I'm not an expert in the scheme stuff, so it would be
> nice if somebody else answered.

IIUC, every grob is self-contained, so it shouldn't matter which order
they are in.  Maybe in the past someone wanted to group "related"
grobs together (like the internal grob property list), thus the
comment.

Alphabetical order makes the most sense to me in this case, with the grob alist.

-Patrick