On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:38 PM, plros...@gmail.com wrote: > To be honest, there are many things I don't understand. In fact, I > reduced the example to understand it better. > > Why is horizontal spacing affected even though the purity affects the > Y-axis only?
Because horizontal spacing is based on thing's height. If something is tall, it may lead to wider spacing as it cannot be kerned. > Why do stems fix the spacing? I don't understand the question :( > Why doesn't this cause the > spacing problem: > > \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { "o" } > \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print > text-interface::print is declared pure towards the bottom of define-grobs.scm > But this does cause the problem: > > \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { "o" } > \override NoteHead #'stencil = > #(lambda (grob) (ly:text-interface::print grob)) > > Cannot it happen a simple change would make Lilypond recognize lambda > expressions as pure functions, breaking this example? This is why unpure-pure-containers exist. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel