Re: Make \tweak ... Grob equivalent to \override rather than \once \override (issue 14503043)

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/10/16  <address@hidden>:
> That's not really the main point.  It would have been simple previously
> to make \tweak be equivalent to \override rather than \once \override
> when used on symbol lists.
>
> \tweak syntax for overrides is not really pretty, but it makes it easy
> to implement mixed tweaks/overrides like \hide or \omit.  But there are
> some changes which only make sense as a \once\override or a \tweak (like
> footnotes), and now one can write \once\tweak without a problem, even
> when it turns out \tweak is being indeed used as a \tweak and not as an
> \override.
>
> It's not really an advertisable feature: it's just making several tools
> fit the same handle for convenience, but it's not like the resulting
> look is particularly elegant.


Indeed, it's not elegant.  But i hope that one day there will be an
elegant tool that could do everything; this patch is a move in that
direction so i support it despite it being not elegant.

best,
Janek