Re: Turns

[David Kastrup]

"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:

> Shane Brandes,
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> Please allow me to tap your expertise once again.
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> In most cases the command you gave worked. Two identical ( as far as I can
> see ) codes are not producing identical engravings. 
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> My error?

extra-offset tells LilyPond to first do all its work (including
collision avoidance) and then moves the result without any consideration
by the given amount.  The situation where you would use that is mostly
to correct errors in a printout by overriding LilyPond's work after the
fact, stuff you'd probably do by dragging with a mouse in a graphical
program.

It does not really work well as a general mechanism.  For rearranging
stacking orders and similar automatically, the manual offers a number of
recipes in
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-objects>.

It seems like an anomaly that advanced material like this would be
covered in the Learning Manual and is seemingly not to be found in the
Notation Reference.

-- 
David Kastrup