Re: Bug in \offset with Fingering.font-size?

[David Nalesnik]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>
wrote:

>
> David Nalesnik wrote Saturday, November 01, 2014 9:46 PM
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Should \offset work with the font-size of fingering?  It doesn't seem
> to.
> >> The default value is -5, so offsetting by -2 should give -7, with a
> size as
> >> shown by the \override and \tweak, but both forms of \offset give 0.
> >
> > You're seeing this behavior with \offset because 'font-size can't be set
> to a
> > callback, which \offset does.
> >
> > Enhancing 'font-size to process callbacks would be a useful feature, I
> think.
>
> Thanks, I see.  I agree, although a warning might be a pro tem stand-in.
>

Yes, that would be good.  I believe this question has cropped up before.


>
> There goes my first example of its use for the docs :(
>
>
Oh!  You're tackling the documentation?  I'm so glad to hear that :) :)

I might have an example or two from when I was trying (unsuccessfully of
course) to write something up.  I think I may have been fooling with
Beam.positions.

Have you seen the regtest offsets.ly?  Maybe one of those examples is
workable.

--David