Re: Issue 2916: Document \hide and \omit (issue 6851102)

[dak]

Reviewers: Trevor Daniels, thomasmorley65,


http://codereview.appspot.com/6851102/diff/3001/Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
File Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6851102/diff/3001/Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely#newcode1499
Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely:1499: \omit Staff.Clef
On 2012/11/26 08:34:37, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> That's really confusing.  If a context is
> specified in an \override in the same location
> it generates no warning or error but becomes
> ineffective.  Unless this can be changed
> this needs much more explanation.

The underlying rationale was that music containing overrides is
_filtered_ when used in context modifications, and only those overrides
applying to a context of the proper type are actually being applied.

I think the idea was to be able to cram \time, \clef and other stuff
into one \global context modification and use that everywhere, sorting
itself out properly.

I agree that the effect that this has here is not really harmonizing
well with \override (which does not allow a context spec inside of
context mods, and will not silently ignore Bottom overrides in
non-Bottom contexts), so it might make sense to just drop this
(not-really-yet-reached) design goal and the associated "picky" context
modifications which are not really documented on the user or even the
concept level.

Description:
Issue 2916: Document \hide and \omit

Also fixes a few other inaccuracies.

Please review this at http://codereview.appspot.com/6851102/

Affected files:
  M Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely