Re: Add the command \offset to LilyPond (issue 8647044)

[dak]

> and there's too many "or-nothing"s there (i suppose
> that the biggest problem is an optional argument
> followed by non-optional one ("value")).  However,
> in case of \offset, we can have either a \shape-like
> syntax

> \offset property value grobname-or-music

> or

> \offset grobwithproperty-or-property value nothing-or-music

> since the first argument is not optional (i.e there's
> always at least the property to specify), i guess that
> it should be easier to do?

nothing-or-music in the last position only works if "nothing" is
_explicitly_ specified with \default

There is no way that the last argument of a music function can be
"nothing" silently.

I guess that was the design decision also to be made regarding the
other functions.


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