Re: another skyline problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > symbol up -- this is the right action.  However, if you comment
> > out the line overriding the Y-offset property you can see that it
> > has no effect, which is problematic.
>
> If a user wants the symbol to be moved from its default position,
> they can set extra-offset instead of Y-offset.

Then it no longer takes place in the formatting.

> If a user wants the symbol to be positioned at an absolute offset
> from its Y-parent, they can just set outside-staff-position to () in
> addition to setting Y-offset.

Unfortunately, I can't `just set outside-staff-position' because this
property doesn't exist yet -- at least I wasn't able to find it.

However, this is the missing info -- as soon as the skyline stuff gets
documented (and implemented :-) properly, this very feature should be
described also.


     Werner