Re: tuplet bracket required, override doesn't work?

[Joe Neeman]

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:34 -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> Tom Hall wrote:
> > Hello List
> > 
> > A triplet that begins with a quaver (8) rest, followed by a crotchet (4) 
> > note,
> > by default prints no bracket. This I thought unusual, more so that an 
> > overide as
> > below seems to make no change either. Is there a simple way to have 
> > brackkets
> > print by default in such cases?
> > 
> > \override TupletBracket #'bracket-visibility = ##t
> > 
> > \times 2/3 { r8 e4 }
> > 
> > %Build 2.12.1-1, OSX.4.11 PPC
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> 
> Strange.  Notice that the bracket appears in all of these except the 
> situation Tom gave:

I suspect it's because the r8 e4 example is too narrow. It is the
narrowest of all these examples, so there is probably not enough room
for the tuplet bracket. I'd suggest that the best solution in this case
would be to widen the tuplet bracket rather than suppressing it.

Joe