Re: is the lyric tie tweakable?

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>> These properties are accessed like
>> \override #'(left-pad . -1)
>> as any markup override.
>
> I tried that, of course — it returns
>
> error: not a key
>   \override
>             #'(left-pad . -1) le,~au soir, __ à __ la chan -- del -- le, __
>
> This is in a \lyricmode block, if that makes a difference.
>

\override is actually a markup command here, and as such needs to be
preceded by \markup.

-David