Vertical alignment order

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/lilypond
> Index: lilypond/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
> diff -u lilypond/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely:1.34 
> lilypond/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely:1.35
> --- lilypond/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely:1.34       Thu May  5 23:45:29 2005
> +++ lilypond/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely    Sun May  8 23:17:49 2005
> @@ -34,6 +34,15 @@
>  @itemize @bullet
>  
>  @item
> +Newly created staves and lyric lines, can be put in any vertical order,
> +by setting @code{alignBelowContext} or @code{alignAboveContext}
> +properties in the newly created context. An example of the use of this
> +is in @inputfileref{input/regression,alignment-order.ly}.
> +
> +This feature has been sponsored by Bertalan Fodor. 
> +
> +

This is great news! However, in order to make it a useful feature, it
needs some documentation. Also, we have a number of examples and
templates that can be rewritten and simplified using this new feature,
for example in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Vocal-ensembles.html#Vocal-ensembles
where there's no need for placeholders like
context Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }.

Also, if I understand correctly, it makes my comments in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2005-05/msg00012.html
more or less obsolete, so Han-Wen, you are free to define that feature
as a bug.

   /Mats