Re: \override ClefModifier.text has no effect

[James Lowe]

Hello,


On 15/08/18 11:19, Malte Meyn wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I’m not sure: Is this a bug? According to the Internals Reference, 
> ClefModifier has ly:text-interface::print as a stencil and should use 
> the 'text property. But the following doesn’t show “8va” as expected 
> but “8”:
>
> \version "2.21.0" % same for 2.19.82, 2.18.2
> {
>   % make sure the correct grob is targeted
>   \override Staff.ClefModifier.color = #red
>   % nothing happens:
>   \override Staff.ClefModifier.text = "8va"
>   \clef "treble^8"
>   R1
> }
>
> I suppose that there’s a reason for that behaviour (maybe in the 
> definition of the \clef command?) but could be considered a bug 
> nevertheless. I found the following workaround but it’s not very 
> comfortable:
>
> {
>   \override Staff.ClefModifier.before-line-breaking =
>   #(lambda (grob)
>      (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text "8va"))
>   \clef "treble^8"
>   R1
> }
>
> Cheers,
> Malte

We mention (something related to) this in our NR

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation-big-page.html#clef

Known Issues and warnings - where we actually use a coloured example.

Is this kind of what David was talking about or do we need to improve 
what we state there?

James