Re: stem-shorten can't be reverted

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The problem is that before lilypond starts doing anything else it
> sorts all requests by time.
>
> This allows for < {foo bar} {baz jazz} > and
> { <foo baz> <bar jazz> } to mean the same things.
>
> In your examples the two requests happen on the same time (because
> they are in the same simultainonus group} and on each time slot
> lilypond performs all requests befor it performs the notes. Hence
> the setting will be both overridden AND reverted before the note
> occurs.

Thanks.  This is something for the docs -- if it is already there, it
should be more pronounced.


    Werner