Re: must 'layer be "between 0 and 2"?

[Trevor Daniels]

Eluze, you wrote Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:11 PM
> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Mark
> >
> > If you look up layers in the index to the Notation
> > Reference you'll find there that it says the layer
> > property should be set to an integer and most objects
> > are drawn by default with a value of 0 or 1.  Also
> > the example shown uses a value of -1.  Maybe we
> > ought to change define-grob-properties to reflect
> > this, though.
> yes, that's true but in the Appendix A of the NR as well as in the 
> IR (14
> times) you can read:
>
> layer (integer)
>  The output layer (a value between 0 and 2): Layers define the 
> order of
> printing
>  objects. Objects in lower layers are overprinted by objects in 
> higher
> layers.
>
>
> this is very confusing!

It is, isn't it!  That's why I suggested to Mark that
the wording in define-grob-properties be changed.  This
wording is the source for both the NR Appendix and the IR.

I'll update it to agree with the main text in the NR - it
doesn't have to be between 0 and 2.

Trevor