RE: Turns

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Mr. Kastrup,

Thank you for your input and providing another learning experience.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:57 AM
To: Mark Stephen Mrotek
Cc: 'Shane Brandes'; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Turns

"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:

> Shane Brandes,
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> Please allow me to tap your expertise once again.
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> In most cases the command you gave worked. Two identical ( as far as I 
> can see ) codes are not producing identical engravings.
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> My error?

extra-offset tells LilyPond to first do all its work (including collision
avoidance) and then moves the result without any consideration by the given
amount.  The situation where you would use that is mostly to correct errors
in a printout by overriding LilyPond's work after the fact, stuff you'd
probably do by dragging with a mouse in a graphical program.

It does not really work well as a general mechanism.  For rearranging
stacking orders and similar automatically, the manual offers a number of
recipes in
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-
objects>.

It seems like an anomaly that advanced material like this would be covered
in the Learning Manual and is seemingly not to be found in the Notation
Reference.

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David Kastrup