Mats,
I wrote:
I'm trying to hide the first time signature, but display any which come
later. So here's a snippet:
\version "2.9.17"
{
\once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'break-visibility = ##(#f #f #f)
\time 4/4 c'1 \time 3/4 c'2.
}
The tweak is based on this page:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/TimeSignature.html
You replied:
If you had followed the link at the bottom of that page to
"item-interface", you
would have found the solution much quicker. Always remember that the
information
presented for each graphical object is just a subset of the full
documentation of all
the available properties. To see it all, you need to browse through all
the links to the
interfaces.
Indeed, I discovered those links soon after I posted. But the particular
link you mention, "item-interface", doesn't seem to offer much help here.
It mentions the "break-visibility" setting, but so does the TimeSignature
page itself, and it didn't take me long to find it on the TimeSignature
page. True, the "item-interface" page explains it at greater length,
though.
What I still don't understand is the "stencil" setting (which Kieren
suggested as an alternative), which I now see is listed on the
"grob-interface" page (linked from the bottom of the TimeSignature page),
but there it appears under "Internal properties" and not under "User
settable properties". That seems to imply that "stencil" is not "user
settable", though Kieren's example suggests that it is. Also, whether or
not "stencil" is "user settable", the "grob-interface" page offers no clue
as to what values/syntax it might take. The entry reads:
stencil (unknown)
The symbol to print.
BUT, now I notice something I didn't see before. At the bottom of the list
of "user settable properties" is:
transparent (boolean)
This makes the grob invisible.
"transparent": That sounds awfully familiar! It's wonder I couldn't see it
before -- it's like I was looking right through it.
Sure enough, the following line works like a charm:
\once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t
Seeing as "grobs" are ubiquitous in Lilypond (judging from, e.g., the list
at the bottom of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/grob_002dinterface.html
), I imagine I won't have too much trouble the next time I want to hide
something.
(My "stencil" query remains unresolved, but it's not so pressing.)
Thanks, Mats and Kieren, for the help.
Marcus
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