RE: Middle line stem direction in 2.8 - oops

[Father Panteleimon]

Wait a minute. Think I just found a misspelling in my linux file. 
Not platform dependent. Chump-dependent. Sincerest apologies.
Fr. P 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 2:58 PM
To: Father Panteleimon
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Middle line stem direction in 2.8

Are you really sure that you use the same LilyPond version both in Windows
and Linux? These differences cannot possibly be platform dependent as far as
I can understand.

For the reasoning behind the change, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-03/msg00104.html

   /Mats

Quoting Father Panteleimon <address@hidden>:

> In the 2.7 development versions prior to the release of 2.8.0 , the 
> stem directions for notes on the middle line of the staff followed the 
> direction of neighoboring notes (a feature sponsored by Mike Rolish and
Basil Crow).
> It appears that in 2.8.0, this feature (which looks very nice and 
> helps with slurs, too) became an option rather than the default. So I 
> looked at the snippet behind the appropriate graphic on the "changes" page
and found this:
> \new Voice \with {
>  \consists "Melody_engraver"
>  \override Stem #'neutral-direction = #'() } And then the \relative, 
> the notes, etc.
>
> Since I have no other need for a "\new Voice \with{.." in my scores, I 
> tried putting  \override Stem #'neutral-direction = #'() in the layout 
> block. This worked unders windows but not under linux (which runs 
> lilypond much more quickly).
> I also tried the entire \new Voice...etc. snippet under linux and that 
> didn't work either, although it does under windows. The .ly files I'm 
> using for both OS's are exactly the same. Is there something wrong 
> with my installation of lily under linux, or else can someone tell me 
> some other way to make Mike & Basil's feature default for middle-line 
> note stems again? I am assuming that it was changed from default to 
> option intentionally, as the wording of the "changes" doc suggests.
>
>
> Fr. P
>
>
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