Re: Change the color of ledger lines

[Nick Payne]

On 18/04/11 19:33, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe this question has already been answered but I did not find a
> solution while searching through the mailing lists.
>
>    \override NoteHead #'color = #red
> changes the color of the note heads but not the color of the ledger
> lines.  I tried
>
>    \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'color = #red
>
> but it does not work.
>
> Any idea how I could change the color of the ledger lines (ledger lines
> only, I do not want to change the whole staff's color).

Using

\override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'color = #red

works for me in making the ledger lines and not the staff red.

\version "2.13.59"
\score {
   \new Staff {
          \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'color = #red
          c c' c'' c'''
   }
}

Nick