Re: Proposed patch to modify #'style of line objects

[Mats Bengtsson]

I have now added a convert-ly rule which issues a warning. Also, the 
manual should
be updated, by the following patch. Should I apply it to GIT or should 
it rather
be done in the GDP copy?

diff --git a/Documentation/user/text.itely b/Documentation/user/text.itely
index 6e8cfc8..b835844 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/text.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/text.itely
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ c2\startTextSpan b c\stopTextSpan a
To print a solid line, use

@example
-\override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #'()
+\override TextSpanner #'style = #'line
@end example


@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ to tune them.

@lilypond[relative=2,ragged-right,verbatim,fragment]
d2 \glissando d'2
-\once \override Glissando #'dash-fraction = #0.5
+\override Glissando #'style = #'dashed-line
d,2 \glissando d'2
\override Glissando #'style = #'dotted-line
d,2 \glissando d'2


    /Mats

Graham Percival wrote:
> Would it be easy to create a convert-ly rule for this?  (I can't 
> remember what the old syntax was)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Since I haven't heard any objections, I have now commited the patch
> > to GIT, so that style = #'line always means solid line.
> >
> >   /Mats
> >
> > Graham Percival wrote:
> > > Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > > > I realize that this might break some existing code and have tried 
> > > > to fix it
> > > > in the regression test files I could find (the example 
> > > > line-arrows.ly in LSR
> > > > has to be updated correspondingly).
> > >
> > > LSR is still on 2.10.12, so this can't be fixed until it upgrades.  
> > > (and that won't be until a 2.12 beta version, at the earliest)
> > >
> > > > Also, the current behavior is mentioned
> > > > at one place in the manual, which should be updated in GDP.
> > >
> > > Easily done, once 2.11.35 (or .36) is out.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > - Graham
>
>
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