Re: order of engravers

[Neil Puttock]

On 28 April 2010 13:41, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> And if each engraver specifies what engravers it is relying on in a
> machine-readable manner (or the respective order in which it wants to be
> applied), then Lilypond can actually do the required sorting and figure
> out a proper order at runtime.

I agree, there's no point in providing automated documentation unless
the dependencies are also resolved automatically (which turns it from
being a quick frog task into something a bit more involved).

There's already limited support for ordering via the method
Translator::must_be_last () (and must-be-last in a scheme engraver),
which is used to ensure Axis_group_engraver is always the last
engraver in a context definition.

Cheers,
Neil