Re: offset not working

[Mats Bengtsson]

It's one of the initialization files that LilyPond reads when started.
Call LilyPond with the extra flag
lilypond --verbose
to get a listing of all initialization files that are read, with the
full path.

The reason that no-spacing-rods doesn't work for MultiMeasureRestText
is that this object is a spanner, whereas TextScripts, for example are
Items. You can get some information on these issues if you look at
the program reference for spanner-interface and item-interface,
respectively (Program Reference -> Backend -> Graphical Object
Interfaces). If you want more details, I'm afraid one of the main
hackers have to explain.

   /Mats

Kris Shaffer wrote:
> Is ly/property-init.ly online somewhere?  I can't find a lilypond-doc  
> package for Mac OS X, and I don't have any lilypond stuff in /usr/share/.
>
> In the meantime, I tried \override MultiMeasureRestText 
> #'no-spacing-rods  = ##f in place of \fatText, but it did not work.  I 
> also found in the  program reference online that, though TextScript 
> takes #'no-spacing-rods,  MultiMeasureRestText does not.  Did I miss 
> anything, or would this feature  need to be added?
>
> Kris
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:25:17 -0400, Graham Percival <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
>
> > On 22-Aug-05, at 6:15 PM, Kris Shaffer wrote:
> >
> > > One more question on this issue:
> > > The commands \fatText and \emptyText have no effect on either
> > >
> > >     s1*0^\markup {whatever}
> > >     R1*4
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >     R1*4^\markup {whatever}
> > >
> > > How can I automatically apply the width of the markup string to the  
> > > width of the multi-rest bar?
> >
> >
> > Take a look in ly/property-init.ly to find out what \fatText does, 
> > then  change
> > the TextScript to MultiMeasureRestText.
> >
> > ly/property.init.ly:
> > fatText = \override TextScript  #'no-spacing-rods = ##f
> > emptyText = \override TextScript  #'no-spacing-rods = ##t
> >
> >
> >
> > I've added the following to the manual:
> >
> > Warning!  This text is created by @code{MultiMeasureRestText}, not
> > @code{TextScript}.
> >
> > {
> > \override TextScript #'padding = #5
> > R1^"low"
> > \override MultiMeasureRestText #'padding = #5
> > R1^"high"
> > }

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