Re: Lilypond only respects override of Score.SpacingSpanner.strict-grace-spacing at the beginning of the score

[Ole V. Villumsen]

Thanks, Jean, that works in the first example I tried and is very, very 
helpful. Seems I had not really studied NR 4.5.6 and 4.5.2. Will go through 
chapter 4.
/Ole

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------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, September 24th, 2023 at 11:28, Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> 
wrote:

> Le dimanche 24 septembre 2023 à 09:21 +0000, Ole V. Villumsen via 
> bug-lilypond a écrit :
>
>> \version "2.24.2"
>>
>> \relative {
>> g'1 |
>> % The following has no effect.
>> \override Score.SpacingSpanner.strict-grace-spacing = ##t
>> \grace { a4 } g1 |
>> }
>>
>> \relative {
>> % This works.
>> \override Score.SpacingSpanner.strict-grace-spacing = ##t
>> g'1 |
>> \grace { a4 } g1 |
>> }
>>
>> As a consequence we cannot change this property dynamically in the course of 
>> the score.
>
> This is expected. The \newSpacingSection command can be used to start a new 
> SpacingSpanner that will respond to the current active spacing settings.