Re: Overriding skyline settings (for accidentals) in 2.17 ?

[Paul Morris]

> Paul Morris <paul <at> paulwmorris.com> writes: 
> 
> > > Yes.  If you set them to an empty list, the code uses the extents 
> > >   \override Accidental #'horizontal-skylines = #'() 
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip.  I tried it and the result was that the space between 
> the accidentals and notes collapsed: 
> > 
> 
> Well, you did something similar in Scheme, but might have avoided getting 
> the fall-back skylines. 
> 
> If you override the default for 'horizontal-skylines in the layout block 
> to an empty list, LilyPond substitutes a function to refer to the 
> X/Y-extents, something like 
>   Grob::simple_horizontal_skylines_from_extents 
> when each Accidental is first created. 

Ah, ok, that did the trick.  It makes the output is now the same as with 2.16.  

Thanks again!
-Paul