Re: \with mods targeting parents

David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes:

> Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> To me as an experienced user who has not followed the evolution of the
>> usage of \with blocks, it seems a bit surprising that after explicitly
>> requesting the Staff.instrumentName property to be changed, the
>> Voice.instrumentName property is what is actually changed.
>
> There is no difference between "explicitly requested" and "implicitly
> requested" in the form of predefined commands to LilyPond.
>
> The current behavior was a design decision along with the implementation
> of allowing property-setting music in \with-blocks to be converted.
>
> We actually went through all this once already including actual code,
> and the results were unhelpful.
>
> Please check
>
> <https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/2982>

It also turns out that if you really want the settings constrained to
those matching a particular context type, the optional argument of
\settingsFrom will allow you to filter in that manner.

-- 
David Kastrup