Re: Add the command \offset to LilyPond (issue 8647044)

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/10/15  <address@hidden>:
> On 2013/10/15 18:04:43, janek wrote:
> Well, that's the slightly icky thing.  The \offset is with respect to
> the situation you'll get when doing \revert Arpeggio.positions
> afterwards.  So if you want to make a _relative_ offset to the first
> setting, you have to do
> \temporary \offset #'positions #'(-1 . 2) Arpeggio
>
> I'm not overly enthusiastic about how the \offset command ends up when
> entered as an override.  Maybe we should allow
> \offset #'(-1 . 2) Arpeggio.positions here?  It seems that the offset
> list should not be confusable with a symbol? or whatever is used in the
> front?  So we could make that first argument optional, and complain when
> the last argument is not a symbol list making up for it?

No idea :-(