Hi Dominic,

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Dominic <dominicirv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Minimal example:
>
> /\version "2.19.15"
> \relative c' {
>
>         % === (The following two lines only for cosmetic purposes) ===
>                 \override Glissando.minimum-length = #12
>                 \override Glissando.springs-and-rods =
> #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
>
>         \override Glissando.color =
>                 #(lambda (grob) (if (eq? (ly:grob-property grob
> 'glissando-index) 1) #'red
> #'green ))
>
>         \override Glissando.bound-details.left.padding =
>                 #(lambda (grob) (if (eq? (ly:grob-property grob
> 'glissando-index) 1) 3 0))
>
>         <aes'' ges f d>2. \glissando <f d cis b>4
> }
> /
> The first (color) override works as expected, but the second (left padding)
> has no effect at all. Why is this? All I have changed is the 'color' to
> 'bound-details.left.padding' and the color values to numerical values.
>
> I only superficially understand the Scheme code (I copied it from
> elsewhere), but I cannot guess what the problem might be. If I set
> /\override Glissando.bound-details.left.padding/ to an explicit value, it
> works, but for all glissando lines rather than just one. Therefore, I would
> deduce that the problem lies in my blind modification of the Scheme code.
> Can anyone point out the error I am making?
>
> The actual notational problem I'm trying to solve is this: I want glissando
> lines to all start from the same horizontal position in a chord, after any
> augmentation dots.
>
> As you can see from the image below, the glissando lines' starting points
> are based on each notehead, and they go through the augmentation dots. I
> thought I would be able to manually fiddle with the left and right padding
> of the individual glissando lines, hence my question above, but I have hit
> a
> brick wall.
> glissando-dots-chords.png
> <
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n167966/glissando-dots-chords.png
> >
>
>
 Does the code Thomas Morley provided in the discussion here not help?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg83816.html

--David
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