Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Harm, > >> Of course you should use Staff.OttavaBracket > > Curiously, > > \once \override OttavaBracket.extra-offset … > > [without the Staff context] works fine. (??)
[...] > It’s still quite confusing to me why > > \once \override OttavaBracket.extra-offset … > > works perfectly, with or without the “Staff”, both inline and > externally-applied, whereas > > \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.bound-details.left.X … > > requires the “Staff”, and can only be done inline. (At least I now > understand why #’shorten-pair doesn’t work at all, under any > circumstance, so thanks for that!) > > These kinds of seemingly-arbitrary differences can be quite > frustrating to me (with 15 years of Lilypond experience); I can only > imagine how frustrating they are to new users. Just imagine how frustrating it is to developers to never get a minimal working example actually illustrating all the claims made about LilyPond without having to prompt for it every single time. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
