Re: A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Stefano,

> I am undecided on what the best interface for it would be though, since as 
> Urs already mentioned there are trade-offs with each possibility. I too think 
> that a discussion should be had about that, to see what use-cases and needs 
> arise. How do you usually do that here? Do you make a new thread asking users 
> for feedback?

I personally think we could just keep chatting here…?

Other than Jan-Peter, I may be the person who has used the EE the most often 
for the most scores (well over 50 by now). Here are a couple of thoughts, based 
on my experiences:

1. Use of \editionModList and other convenience "compressors" can, in many 
cases, make for maintenance difficulties. I often find myself scanning back and 
forth through my (sometimes quite large!) edition file to try to see why a 
certain grob is behaving a certain way, only to discover a "hidden" mod in some 
\editionModList. Putting all the compressed mods together [at the top of the 
edition file] helps to some degree, but it's not a silver bullet.

2. Single mods are definitely easier to "find and replace" on than compressed 
mods.

3. The most redundant stuff is the "wrapper" stuff (\editionMod edition-ref 
context-ref), so a simplified way of

4. Things would be way easier if the EE (and/or Frescobaldi) had a method to 
highlight (colour-ing the grobs?) all mods, and a linking method to navigate to 
the correct spot in the edition file. There was an example of this [colouring 
part] some time ago, but I don't know if it was "taken to the goal line"; it's 
worth looking at.

In terms of use cases, I can pull a bunch of concrete ones from my current 
engravings, if that would be helpful. Let me know!

Best,
Kieren.
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