Re: Enhancement request: point-and-click for clefs

[David Kastrup]

Paul <address@hidden> writes:

> On 09/10/2016 07:54 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>
>> Then I’d like if we don’t take that obstacle for granted. Why don’t
>> we have an event? I can imagine the reason: because the clef or bar
>> line isn’t actually a musical event, but only an element of
>> visualisation… as for the clef also because it mainly changes some
>> context properties… But either we be so pragmatic and make them be
>> Events nevertheless (maybe such as aren’t carried into Midi, or are
>> they?), or we need to ask: why does it need an event for
>> point-and-click?
>
> It always seemed odd to me that there wasn't a clef event.  It would
> be nice to have point-and-click for clefs, but I can't claim to
> understand the larger implementation implications one way or another.

Clefs are incidental.  If you have

phrase = { \clef "bass" ... }

<<
  \new Staff { \clef "treble" ... \phrase \clef "treble" ... }
  \new Staff { \clef "bass" ... \phrase \clef "bass" ... }
>>

then the second insertion of \phrase does not show repeated clefs.  They
appear when at least one of a set of properties changes.  Such changes
are detected at a time where the property-changing command itself is no
longer available.

I think that we did something for \time which is implemented in a
somewhat similar way.

-- 
David Kastrup