Trevor Daniels wrote > "Phil Holmes" < > mail@
> > wrote in message news:kt58ju$3le$ > 1@.gmane > ... > >> For one or two of the builds, it appears that the tail is placed >> in front of the whiteout box, for reasons I don't understand, although I >> do >> remember Keith saying that the order of placing whiteout and other grobs >> is >> not determinate and has led to odd regression test results. > > The order in which grobs _in the same layer_ are placed is indeterminate, > but this can be controlled by setting the 'layer property. See > > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects#index-layers > > for details. thanks for pointing us to this - so the correct workaround (if one insists on sky-lines) is: \layout { \context { \Staff \override TextScript.whiteout = ##t \override TextScript.layer = #0 } } the odd thing is you have to find a fitting integer. in our case only the value #0 is satisfying. #1 leads to the cropping behavior #-1 has the bar line drawn through the text Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Fw-whiteout-bug-tp148504p148505.html Sent from the Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond