Re: \shiftOn and friends

[Ted Lemon]

On Jan 29, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
> Certainly the latter.  But quite a lot of work has been done.  More than a 
> few of the examples of overrides in the earlier manuals have had to be 
> removed, as LilyPond now does that particular right thing out of the box.  
> There is always more that could be done, of course.
> 
> But sometimes is is not possible to determine what the best layout option is, 
> either because it is a matter of convention or taste, which vary over time 
> and with composer, or because the processing time needed to detect and 
> correct collisions and other positioning errors would be too great to 
> tolerate.

OK, thanks for the explanation!