Re: triplet bracket disappear

2007-08-30 Thread Nick Didkovsky
Thank-you very much Vivian The "ugly hack" has become my default as I cannot chase these cases down individually and stay sane. It's very unpredictable. Best Nick Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote: Hi all, I know two solutions to this problem. Tuplet brackets disappear when the spacing gets tight, an

Re: triplet bracket disappear

2007-08-30 Thread Vivian Barty-Taylor
Hi all, I know two solutions to this problem. Tuplet brackets disappear when the spacing gets tight, and seems to be a Lilypond "feature" rather than a bug. The first solution is to manually increase the spacing between notes in a tuplet: \once \override Score.SeparationItem #'padding = #0.7

Re: triplet bracket disappear

2007-08-30 Thread Nick Didkovsky
Hello Mats Today I had the same problem appear on a piano part that I extracted with default staff size. I got an 8th note followed by a qtr note, with only the number "3" below them, with no bracket. Boo. This is a real problem, and as I understand there may not be a fix, how should I proce

Re: triplet bracket disappear

2007-08-30 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Brackets that would be too short to print nicely are automatically removed. As far as I can remember, there is no possibility to specify the minimum width of a triplet and force LilyPond to modify the note spacing to get at least this width, but I may be wrong. There are such possibilities on so