Re: can't seem to apply tweaks on tweaks

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Harm,
>
>> Of course you should use Staff.OttavaBracket
>
> Curiously,
>
>    \once \override OttavaBracket.extra-offset …
>
> [without the Staff context] works fine. (??)

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> It’s still quite confusing to me why
>
>    \once \override OttavaBracket.extra-offset …
>
> works perfectly, with or without the “Staff”, both inline and
> externally-applied, whereas
>
>    \once \override Staff.OttavaBracket.bound-details.left.X …
>
> requires the “Staff”, and can only be done inline. (At least I now
> understand why #’shorten-pair doesn’t work at all, under any
> circumstance, so thanks for that!)
>
> These kinds of seemingly-arbitrary differences can be quite
> frustrating to me (with 15 years of Lilypond experience); I can only
> imagine how frustrating they are to new users.

Just imagine how frustrating it is to developers to never get a minimal
working example actually illustrating all the claims made about LilyPond
without having to prompt for it every single time.

-- 
David Kastrup