Properties

[Rune Zedeler]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> > Please post full example if you have some smart way of typesetting <a //
> > a > WITHOUT merging the noteheads.

> Yes. Simply add some code to note-collision.cc. 

Yes, ofcourse on ecould add a property, merge-noteheads, controlling 
whehter or not to merge the noteheads at all.
This, however, would sum up to a total of three properties just to 
control a minor thing like notehead merging - 'merge-noteheads, 
'merge-differently-headed and 'merge-differently-dotted. I would 
consider this an overkill. Generally I see three options of how to 
control a bunch of related settings that control the same thing (i.e. in 
this case: whether the noteheads should be merged).

a) add a lot of properties

b) add one list-type property containing symbols corresponding to the 
properties of a)

c) add one function-type property taking some argument and returning a 
value (in this case: taking two noteheads as argument and returning 
whether they should be merged)

It is not clear to me what is prefered by the main developers. Though I 
see that in earlier versions - before scm - a) was the only option. 
Today iiuc b) or c) should be prefered and hence I don't like adding a 
third option for controlling the notehead-visibility.
Though I am very unsure whether the developers prefer b og c. - I see no 
consistensy between different properties.

Are there any comments on this?


-Rune