Re: globally set \markup \box #'box-padding

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 3 juil. 08 à 21:15, Kieren MacMillan a écrit :

> [Lilypond 2.11.49]
>
> Hello all,
>
> I need boxed markups with a set padding, i.e. I'm currently using
>
>    ^\markup { \override #'(box-padding . 1) \box { ... } }
>
> How can I set this value once, rather than needing to do it each  
> time? I've tried
>
>         \override TextScript #'box-padding = #1
>
> but Lilypond says
>
>    "warning: cannot find property type-check for 'box-padding'..."
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Kieren.

I don't know if it is a good advice, but this can be achieved thus:

\paper {
  #(set! text-font-defaults
         (cons '(box-padding . 1) text-font-defaults))
}

nicolas