Re: Overriding skyline settings (for accidentals) in 2.17 ?

[Keith OHara]

Paul Morris <paul <at> paulwmorris.com> writes:

> 
> > Yes.  If you set them to an empty list, the code uses the extents 
> >   \override Accidental #'horizontal-skylines = #'() 
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  I tried it and the result was that the space between 
the accidentals and notes collapsed:
> 

Well, you did something similar in Scheme, but might have avoided getting
the fall-back skylines.

If you override the default for 'horizontal-skylines in the layout block
to an empty list, LilyPond substitutes a function to refer to the
X/Y-extents, something like
  Grob::simple_horizontal_skylines_from_extents
when each Accidental is first created.