Re: What is the difference between \paper and \layout blocks?

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le 14/01/2023 à 22:10, David Kastrup a écrit :
>> What should it be?
>
>
> I have no idea. My own gut feeling is that output defs need a redesign
> and reimplementation from scratch anyway. In an ideal world, we wouldn't
> even have the paper/layout/midi distinction.

I don't see that.  layout/midi are different output media.  paper has
some overarching information (like base file names).  It also contains
some information pertinent to typesetting a whole document as opposed to
single scores, like paper dimensions.  Things like staff sizes are a
whole lot murkier, and developers have been scratching their head about
making things like layout-set-staff-size work in a sensible manner, if
at all.

-- 
David Kastrup