Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053)

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:07:46PM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote:
> Bad: the user has to use a new syntax - instead of \override Stem #'length = 
> #5, they need to type \override Stem #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5)

What's the difference (from your end) between #(stem::length 5)
and #5 ?

> A mid-way solution may be to start building deprecation warnings into 
> Lilypond.

that's a common complaint; we'll discuss deprecation in a future
GOP.

Cheers,
- Graham