Re: setting baseline-skip "from this point on"

[Simon Albrecht]

On 07.06.2017 19:44, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Is it*really*  not possible to have just one "huge" command, which is used wherever 
> "\huge" makes sense?

You mean one command for use in markup and music? That’s not possible, 
because markup commands have a different namespace in that \huge is 
translated to #:huge in the Scheme ‘markup’ macro, which is then 
translated to make-huge-markup. (Which is also why define-markup-command 
has such a different syntax from define-music-function &c.)

>   In the 20 years I've programmed (in different languages and environments), 
> I've never seen as many multiple confusing definitions as there seem to be in 
> the Lilypond codebase (q.v. fontSize, font-size, fontsize, etc.).

Maybe 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/naming-conventions-of-objects-and-properties> 
should be somewhat extended to cover musicFunctions and markup-commands? 
A real problem is that there are a few markup commands that defy the 
naming convention. In the special case of font size, you have to chime 
in as a native speaker whether fontsize is even correct, i.e. spelling 
it as one word.

Best, Simon