[Lilypond-auto] Issue 2586 in lilypond: StaffSymbol thickness override and imperfect ossia

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New issue 2586 by address@hidden: StaffSymbol thickness override and  
imperfect ossia
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2586

Reported by Karol Majewski as "imperfect ossias" here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-06/msg00010.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs/35579

Original post:

I think that the way of creating ossias, that is presented in the
documentation, is incomplete. Apart from reducing size of: font,
staff-space and thickness, we also have to reduce length of the beam!
Otherwise we get something like this:

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Subsequently Thomas Morley pointed out that this is to do with  
StaffSymbol-thickness

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-06/msg00011.html

2012/6/3 Karol Majewski <address@hidden>:
> I think that the way of creating ossias, that is presented in the
> documentation, is incomplete. Apart from reducing size of: font,
> staff-space and thickness, we also have to reduce length of the beam!
> Otherwise we get something like this:

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It's not a problem with ossias, but with overriding StaffSymbol-thickness.

\version "2.15.39"
\new Staff \with { \override StaffSymbol #'thickness = #(magstep -3) }
    { e'8 [e'] }