Re: Curious behaviour of q and a tweak

[Werner LEMBERG]

> [...] As you can deduce from the existence of the \chordRepeats
> function, the substitution of q is not immediate.  In contrast,
> \tweak takes effect immediately by modifying each of the notes in
> the chord.  Since there are no notes yet in the "q" chord at the
> time \tweak is applied (they are copied later from the previous
> chord), \tweak does nothing.  [...]
>
> On the other hand, in this case, there is little \tweak \could do
> that \override cannot do.  The main purpose of \tweak is to be used
> if you want to modify only one of the notes in a chord, but without
> writing out each of the notes instead of putting "q", you don't make
> room for this.  So, just use an \override here.

Shouldn't this be documented in the NR?  It's certainly not obvious to
Joe User...


    Werner