Re: Box around MeasureCounter

[David Kastrup]

Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:

> On 2021-11-22 11:24 am, Rajesh Baskar wrote:
>> I had another question. The MeasureCounter boxify function does not
>> work if we change the staff to Rhythmic staff.
>
> You need to scope the grob to the appropriate context.  \boxifying
> something within Staff only affects Staff.  If you need it to work for
> RhythmicStaff, just be more specific:
>
> %%%%
> \new Voice {
>   \boxify RhythmicStaff.MeasureCounter
>   ...
> }
>
> %% ...or... %%
>
> \new RhythmicStaff
> \with { \boxify MeasureCounter }
> { ... }
>
> %% ...or... %%
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \RhythmicStaff
>     \boxify MeasureCounter
>   }
> }
> %%%%

You can also do this less specifically:

\layout {
  \boxify Staff.MeasureCounter
}

should affect all contexts that respond to an _alias_ of "Staff" which
includes RhythmicStaff .

-- 
David Kastrup