Re: music-function madness (help!)

[Trevor Daniels]

Mark

Look up layers in the Notation Reference index.  The
relevant sentence there is "The order of printing objects
with the same value of 'layer is indeterminate."

Setting 'layer explicitly may solve your problem.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: music-function madness (help!)


> Guys,
>
> this is driving me crazy. I responded to a
> request on -user for a "torn-page" effect at
> the end of each system, preferably random. I
> made some progress, then slammed head-first
> into inexplicable buggy behavior. I tried to
> recreate this on a smaller scale, but this
> is as small as I can get it.
>
> I'm using a template of sorts to create the
> torn-page effect (for the right side of the
> staff first) called "rightTearGeneric".
>
> Using that, I made 3 flavors: rightTearFixed
> (creates the same tear each time),
> rightTearCustom (pass it a list of staff-line
> tear-lengths each time), and rightTearRandom
> (automated).
>
> Bizarrely, they all work some of the time!
> It seems to depend on the order in which they
> appear. Example: random-fixed-fixed-fixed
> works, but random-fixed-fixed-fixed-fixed
> fails, and even stranger, it only fails on
> the 2nd of the 4 "fixed"s.
>
> This specific project isn't the point. I've
> come across this strangeness before, and I
> don't ever want to hit this again.
>
> HEEEELLLLLPP!!!!
>
> - Mark


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