Re: Override Staff.StaffSymbol.color has no effect when first note is grace note

[Malte Meyn]

Am 11.09.19 um 18:18 schrieb Florian Grundig:
>     Hi all,
>
>     it seems there's an issue when using an
>     override of Staff.StaffSymbol.color in combination with a grace note as
>     first note in score -> in this case the override seems to be ignored...
>     when using no grace at all or at a different position the override
>     works as expected:

Hi Florian,

this is issue 34 (https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/34/), 
one of the oldest and best-known bugs. You could place the override in a 
with block, then it will happen before any music, even grace music:

\new Staff \with {
  \override StaffSymbol.color = #red
}

HTH,
Malte