Robin, Thanks. Fair enough. I guessed and experimented and got the result that I wanted. But I'm not quite sure how I managed it!
A problem I had with minimum-X-extent is that it's a pair, but the description describes it as a distance, which I'd have thought was a single number! Best regards, Peter mailto:[email protected] www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 7:55:50 PM, Robin Bannister wrote: > Peter Toye wrote: >> I'm trying to work out what the properties of a LyricHyphen are, but the >> Internals manual for that object keeps referring to rests, notes. beams. >> stems, See, for example, the minimum-distance property. None of these, to my >> mind, have much to do with lyrics or hyphens. Has some text from another >> object wandered in here by mistake? > Yes and no. > I am afraid you are expecting too much of the Internals comments. > These comments are not handcrafted for each object's page. > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/layout-properties > lists all of these properties, and the comments there (have to) serve > for all the different situations in which these > property names are used. > And there can be so many different situations, > that no attempt is made > to mention and describe all of them. Keeps maintenance costs down. > Workarounds: > - try guessing > - search for usage examples > - experiment > - ask on this list > - read the relevant source > Sorry. At least we get these nice lists for each object/interface. > Cheers, > Robin
