Re: Tuplet brackets appear when I've asked them not to

[Mats Bengtsson]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>         According to the doc, to suppress a tuplet number and bracket
> you do \override TupletNumber #'transparent = ##t
>   
No, this should only hide the number, not the bracket.
To control the visibility of the bracket, use the bracket-visibility.
As is noted in 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-11/msg00139.html
the syntax of this property is sufficiently strange to deserve some extra
attention in the docs.

  /Mats
> This works only in the absence of grace notes.
>
> \version "2.10.10"
> \score {
> 	\context Staff \relative c'' { 
> 	\override TupletNumber #'transparent = ##t
>         \times 2/3 { \acciaccatura d8
>                 c8 b c
>         }
>         }
> }
>
> Without the grace note, things work as expected.  When it's there, you
> see a bracket (but no number).
>
> It'd be worth a note in the documentation, I think, to say under what
> circumstances a tuplet bracket appears, and how to suppress it.
>
> See:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Tuplets
> under `commonly tweaked properties'.
>
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