Re: Make defining new contexts simpler with better \alias functionality

[David Kastrup]

Paul Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote
>> An extra command seems like bikeshedding when you can just write
>> 
>> \accept-like Voice myVoice \layout { }
>> 
>> instead.
>
> Good point!  Lets just go with that.

Actually, that kind of usage only works outside of \score.

If you write
\score {
  ...
  \layout { \context { \Voice \name myVoice } }
  \accept-like Voice myVoice \layout { }
}

Then you get _two_ typeset scores.  One without the \accept properties
in place, and one without the context definition.

But your proposal would not really fare better: an \accept-like-layout
command in that position would not really have a way of getting at the
previous score-specific layout definition.

-- 
David Kastrup