Re: Funny Bug or feature?. instrumentNames rendered in reverse order than music

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2010, 13:17:42 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
> > Hello.  This makes figures attached to notes to be printed in the
> > expected (ascending) order, but instrument names in reverse
> > (descending) order.  Another exciting case later below.
> 
> I don't see what the problem is.  Lilypond does not, as far as I can
> see, guarantee any particular order of evaluation here.
> 
> This is neither a bug nor a feature as far as I can see.  There is
> nothing that guarantees this will be different, there is nothing that
> guarantees that it will stay like this.  There is nothing that
> guarantees you'll get the same behavior on two different runs even.

But in real life, in scores with multiple movements, the headers are numbered 
sequentially. Ideally, LilyPond should be able to do that automatically... As 
that example shows, one has to hardcode the movement number (which becomes a 
mess if in a huge oratorio you decide to split one piece into two...).

Cheers,
Reinhold
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