Re: after \once \set fingeringOr ientations… Lilypond falls back to #up

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Mon 04 Jul 2011, 01:43 -Eluze wrote:
> the code 
> 
> \relative {
>   \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
>   < e -1>1 |
>   \once \set fingeringOrientations = #'(right)
>   < e -1> |
>   < e -1> |
> }
> 
> produces 
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31987692/chord%2Bfingering%2Bsmall.jpg 
> 
> 
> imo the fingering in the 3rd "chord" should be at the left of the note.
> the way it works now the use of \once is needless because you must reset the
> fingeringOrientation to whatever you had defined before!
As far as I can see, "\once \set" actually  does "\set and then \unset". Very
probably this is exactly what it should to do.

So, this is rather an issue and should be documented?

I would add this to this, at the very bottom:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/the-set-command

Please, anyone? Any other thoughts?

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  Dmytro O. Redchuk
  Bug Squad