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Context properties

Notation contexts have properties. These properties are from the .ly file using the following expression:

  \property contextname.propname =  value

Sets the propname property of the context contextname to the specified Scheme expression value. All propname and contextname are strings, which are typically unquoted.

Properties that are set in one context are inherited by all of the contained contexts. This means that a property valid for the Voice context can be set in the Score context (for example) and thus take effect in all Voice contexts.

Properties can be unset using the following expression:

  \property contextname.propname \unset

This removes the definition of propname in contextname. If propname was not defined in contextname (but was inherited from a higher context), then this has no effect.

BUGS

The syntax of \unset is asymmetric: \property \unset is not the inverse of \property \set.

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