This is helpful, and you solution works well. So your explanation is, I am
certain, correct.
I *think* something else may be at work here as well. Compare the results of
the following two examples (which I generated with ragged-right = ##t to make
the images compact):
\version "2.18.2"
\relati
% Cannot tweak both ties in a double tie.
% Lilypond 2.18.2 simply ignores the second one.
% This example has a deliberately bad example in
% the second \shape command to make it obvious where it
% is working or not, but *no* values change
% the output from the system. The second \shape command
% i
> It seems to be a duplicate of your other post on that day,
> to which the bug squad did respond. Also this explains why
> Xavier thought it was an outstanding report the other day.
No worries. I don't recall how I submitted it, so I guess something
happened and it was double posted. But thanks f
ing submitted to the LSR. (I am unable to produce this text,
but the guidance from Trevor’s mail should help someone who knows enough
to do it and thereby help steer people to the right actions.)
Best regards,
Arle Lommel
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bug-lilypond m
Thanks. Given that Colin has created a new tracker do you still want me to
submit to the LSR? I'm happy to do so, but just want to make sure that it
doesn't create any problems now that Colin has done that if I *also* submit to
LSR. If you tell me to go ahead, I will try to do so in the next few
> I’m not top posting.
NR 1.2.2 Rests currently documents how to change the default vertical
position of multi-measure rests but not how to change the default
vertical position of normal rests. As a result finding information about
this functionality requires looking in a section that is not immed
(Lilypond 2.16.1)
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/fonts contains
instructions on how to change default document fonts. The instructions require
hard coding a staff size of some sort. However, if the global staff size is set
to a value other than 20, the scaling of note head
(Lilypond 2.16.1)
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/fonts contains
instructions on how to change default document fonts. The instructions
require hard coding a staff size of some sort. However, if the global
staff size is set to a value other than 20, the scaling of note heads
a
> I'm not top posting.
Line height in lyric mode is set not based on the em square of the
font (which is the proper unit for almost all marco-level font
measurements) but rather on the PostScript bounding box height (or
something very similar to it) of the line. This results in
unpredictable and i