Re: how does uniform-stretching work?

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 12.19, Juergen Reuter wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > there is only 1 SpacingSpanner in the entire score. You can only override
> > it at the start.
>
> Just a half-baken, weired idea (and not at all thoroughly thought
> through):  Are there much more examples of properties that can be
> overridden only once at start?  For example, StaffSymbol #'line-count
> comes into my mind.  If yes, and if the syntax for 3.0 will change anyway
> heavily, you may want to model these properties as arguments that
> are passed to a context upon instantiation, maybe something like:
>
> \new Staff = "chant" [StaffSymbol #'line-count = #4] { \myMusic }

Did you try this?
\new Staff = "chant" \with {\override StaffSymbol #'line-count = #4} 
{ \myMusic }

-- 
Erik