Re: odd behaviour with \whiteout

[Trevor Daniels]

Hi Kieren

You need to ensure the layer property is set properly to ensure 
whiteout works reliably.  See
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects#index-layers

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kieren MacMillan" <address@hidden>
To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 7:48 PM
Subject: odd behaviour with \whiteout


> [Lilypond 2.13.61-1 on Mac OS X 10.6]
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've been working on an "end of the piece rotated text stamp".
> Thanks to a tip (and an example on the LSR), I'm almost there.
>
> However, when I compile (see the following minimal example), I get 
> very weird results: Sometimes both scores are properly whiteout-ed 
> (i.e., you cannot see the staff lines under the text), other times 
> only one or the other is, and yet other times neither is.
>
> What's going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
> _____________
>
> \version "2.13"
>
> \paper { ragged-right = ##f }
>
> stamp = \markup \fontsize #-2 \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) 
> \center-column { Toronto "May 2011" }
> stampmarkup = \markup \rotate #90 \whiteout \pad-markup #2 \stamp
>
> \relative c'' {
>  \repeat "unfold" 40 { c4 }
>  \override Staff.BarLine #'stencil =
>    #(lambda (grob)
>       (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge
>        (ly:bar-line::print grob)
>        X RIGHT
>        (grob-interpret-markup grob stampmarkup)
>        0 0))
>  \bar "|."
> }
>
> \relative c'' {
>  \repeat "unfold" 40 { c4 }
>  \override Staff.BarLine #'stencil =
>    #(lambda (grob)
>       (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge
>        (ly:bar-line::print grob)
>        X RIGHT
>        (grob-interpret-markup grob stampmarkup)
>        0 0))
>  \bar "|."
> }
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