Re: Preventing Custom Stencil Collisions

[Robin Bannister]

Carl Testa wrote: 
> Is there a way to define how big a stencil is 

In your case, using ly:make-stencil, the parameters xext and yext 
are for saying how big, and you have done this OK. 
   
   
The problem is that these values don't get to affect the layout, 
because the overridden rest is still showing its original extents. 
These are still being set up by functions ly:rest::width and ly:rest::height. 
See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Rest
  
  
To change this, you can set the these extents directly, e.g. 
  
> \once \override Staff.Rest #'X-extent = #(cons -3 10) 
  
  
The attached replaceRest.ly does this in a less unwieldy way. 
Temporarily changing the call to \ReplaceRest lets you *see* the size. 
  
  
Cheers, 
Robin

replaceRest.ly
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