Re: are tweaks additive?

[Mats Bengtsson]

In short: No!

The change just means that it works more intuitively. The old buggy
behaviour is described in 
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2004-01/msg00224.html.
Now, you can safely set a property on the Score level if you want it
to apply to all Voices, for example.

(Regarding your example, I hope you realize that extra-offset is an
object property, so you have to set it on a layout object, such as
TimeSignature, TextScript or NoteHead. These objects live in some
context, such as the Voice context, though. I recommend to read the
new section on "Changing Defaults" in the latest version of the
manual.)

  /Mats

Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote:
> [ Mac OS X 10.3.3, via Fink;  Lilypond 2.1.35-1 ]
>
> Hey, y'all --
>
> Once again, I can't keep up with HW, J, and M (the Finkster): the 
> versions are coming too fast and furious!  ;-)
>
>  From the Release Notes, I noticed that somewhere along the way,
>
> > Tweaks made with \override and \revert no longer hide tweaks at higher 
> > context levels.
>
>
> Does this mean that tweaks are now additive, in the sense that (e.g.) if 
> I have set Staff.extra-offset to 3 and then set Voice.extra-offset to 2, 
> that the total extra-offset for items in that Voice context is 5?
> Is this different from how it happened in the past (i.e., would the 
> total V.e-o be 2 in my example)?
>
> Thanks!
> Kieren.
>
>
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