Re: whiteout shouldn’t affect other grobs on same layer

[David Kastrup]

Malte Meyn <address@hidden> writes:

> IMO it would be nice if a grob’s white box on one layer wouldn’t cover
> grobs on the same layer; or at least not grobs of the same type on the
> same layer.
>
> Would it be possible to put the whiteout part half a layer below so
> that \override NoteHead.layer = -1 puts the notehead at layer -1 and
> the surrounding white box at layer -1.5? (Or, if you want only
> integers: -1 
> puts the notehead at layer -2 and the white box at layer -3.)

I think that's a reasonable request but it would likely require
significant restructuring of the drawing process.  It would also mean
that whiteout would never work without assigning different layers.  In
practice, you cannot rely on its operation in other circumstances.

-- 
David Kastrup