Re: \hide c4 hides note head only

[Dan Eble]

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Dan Eble <dan <at> faithful.be> writes:
> So what do you expect for
> 
> { <\hide c'' e''>4 }
> 
> Stem or no stem?

Good question.  In that context, hiding just the head would not surprise me.
But then what about {\hide <c''>4}?  Nothing seems to be hidden in that case.
 
> I might add that
> 
> { <\single\hide Stem c'' g''>4 }
> 
> hides the Stem (since its cause points to the c'' NoteHead) while
> 
> { <c'' \single\hide Stem g''>4 }
> 
> doesn't hide it (since its cause points to the c'' NoteHead).
> 
> So it's somewhat tricky to derive a consistent behavior here.

Clearly (now).  I'm not personally very bothered by this because I haven't
found an important reason to use \hide, but I do feel sorry for people trying
to figure out how it works.

Regards,
-- 
Dan