Re: Combining \layout variables

[Trevor Daniels]

David, you wrote Tuesday, May 05, 2015 8:00 PM


> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> David, you wrote Tuesday, May 05, 2015 7:14 PM
>>
>>
>>> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, May 05, 2015 5:44 PM
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The answer to both these questions is that the satb.ly template
>>>>>> comes after the user's code in the input file.  So the overriding
>>>>>> operates the wrong way round.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So maybe just override when there is no setting yet?  Isn't that what
>>>>> the template does with music variables as well?
>>>>
>>>> That's what I was intending to do originally, but the easy
>>>> way is all or nothing - if the user sets any definition
>>>> all the defaults vanish.
>>> 
>>> Sigh.  Decide yourself.  First you stated that the user settings are
>>> loaded first, followed by the satb.ly template (which would consequently
>>> be able to override single settings).
>>
>> Yes, the user settings are loaded first, and any setting in the
>> template will then override any set by the user.  That's the
>> wrong way round - the user should be able to override the template
>> defaults.
>>
>>> Now you state that the satb.ly
>>> template gets first with setting defaults.
>>
>> No, I didn't mean that, but I wasn't clear.  That paragraph
>> was referring to using layout variables in the hope that the
>> order could be inverted.  But then things work
>> differently.  It is not possible to use layout variables
>> in the same way as layout blocks.  That was my initial
>> question - whether there was a way to make them work the same
>> way as layout blocks.  If that were possible I could invert the
>> order.
> 
> So use a layout block instead of a layout variable.  Or, as I stated, 

But the order of overriding if I use layout blocks is the wrong
way round: defaults override user.
 
>>>>> So maybe just override when there is no setting yet?  Isn't that
>>>>> what the template does with music variables as well?
> 
> for individual settings in the current layout.

This seems the only way.  I've no idea how to do that from Scheme,
so I'll go digging.  Any clues?

Trevor