Re: Combining \layout variables

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> Multiple layout blocks can be combined in sensible ways, with later
> definitions taking precedence over earlier ones on an item by item
> basis, but the same is not true when layout blocks are assigned to
> variables.  See
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-layout-block
>
> What I would like to do is to combine two layout blocks contained in
> variables in the same way as layout blocks at top level are combined,
> item by item, but it seems this is not possible, at least I haven't
> been able to achieve it.  Is this indeed not possible?

\layout blocks at the top level are not combined.  You can only modify
an existing layout block by putting new definitions inside.  But those
definitions are never in a layout block of their own but always added to
an existing layout block.

-- 
David Kastrup