Re: regression tests

[Mats Bengtsson]

This discussion is getting more and more confused.
The current program reference does indeed list the
default values of all properties that are set by default,
for every separate grob.

As far as I can see, the bottom line is the following issues:
- These default values are printed as basic Scheme values,
 i.e. not using shorthands like #UP, #DOWN, ...

- The list for each grob only includes the properties that
 are set by default. To see an exhaustive list of all available
 properties, you have to browse through all "interfaces".
 This is of course easy to change in the Program reference
 and we used to have the full list a long time ago, but I'm
 not sure if it's desirable. Perhaps the current HTML page
 per grob could include a link to another page that contains
 the full list of properties.

  /Mats

Carl D. Sorensen wrote:

>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:address@hidden 
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:02 AM
> > To: Graham Percival
> > Cc: lily-devel
> > Subject: Re: regression tests
> >
> >
> > Is there any (automatic) way to generate a COMPLETE list of 
> > user- settable properties (and their defaults) for each grob?
> > I mean, having TeXInfo actually drill down into all of the 
> > interfaces, etc.?
> >    
>
> If I understand correctly, the program reference already contains the
> complete list of user-settable properties for each grob.
>
> Under the current architecture, defaults will be difficult, if not
> impossible, because of the way properties are handled.  Default property
> values are not passed to the routines; the absence of a property
> indicates that the routine should use the default value.  Also,
> properties don't have a certain system-wide default value.  Thus, you
> can't say that the default value of property "foo" is "bar".  It might
> be "bar" when applied to the "grackle" grob, and "baz" when applied to
> the "frobozz" grob.
>
> The automatic documentation of properties is developed from a
> grob-independent list.  Thus, there is only one internal documentation
> point for "size", not one point for each grob that uses size.
>
> Carl Sorensen
>
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