Re: [GSoC] spanners project update

[Urs Liska]

Am 01.07.2016 um 09:28 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt:
>> Hm. If this is a limitation required by the implementation then it's
>> acceptable. But from a user perspective I would be very surprised if an
>> ID isn't recognized without an explicitly named context around it. Isn't
>> that the (one) idea of an ID in general, defining an ID and have it
>> addressable from anywhere?
> Well, the spanner-id is used right now to have multiple slurs (or
> other spanners) in the same Voice. So keeping the spanner-ids in the
> current Voice would only preserve the current behaviour, if no other
> context is given. But OTOH (IISC) it wouldn't break the current
> implementation, as long, as IDs are Score-unique and not only
> Voice-unique. My preference would be to place it in the Score-context.

I think for the given task (freeing spanners from the voice context
limitation) it is clear that we'll require IDs to be unique within the
whole score.

Urs