Re: \parenthesize is not affected by \tweak

[David Kastrup]

Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden> writes:

> What I mean is that the manual does not says "music object".  What I
> mean is that "\tweak color #red \parenthesize c' " has the same output
> than "\parenthesize \tweak color #red c'" -- weired to me.  What I
> mean is that in "c'-\tweak color #red -1", #1 is not a musical object
> according to my eyes, it is a music function setting the fingering
> property on the music object.

You are free to invent your own terminology but you cannot expect the
manual to give authoritive answers according to what you choose to call
things.

> So, another basic question: is there any technical limit so that \tweak
> could be applied to \parenthesized ?

\parenthesized is not an object.  As it stands, color tweaks to notes do
not currently extend beyond the notehead and don't affect, say, Stem and
Flag .

If you want to change that relation for parentheses, you can specify
something like

\layout {
  \context { \Score
             \override ParenthesesItem.color
                = #(grob::inherit-parent-property Y 'color) }
}

in which case the Score-wide default color will get taken from the
Y-parent of a ParenthesesItem, usually the item respective to which the
parentheses are placed.

This would cause both notehead and parens in

\tweak color #red \parenthesize c'

to be colored red.  If you only want the parens, something like

    \single \override ParenthesesItem.color = #red \parenthesize c'

will do the trick, changing only the paren color on the parentehsized c' .

-- 
David Kastrup