On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Maximilian Albert<maximilian.alb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Patrick, > >>> Ah, okay. That's what I though. Out of interest: At the time when >>> these elements get written into the SVG file, do they know about their >>> mutual relationships? E.g., does a beam know which note heads it >>> belongs to (or vice versa)? >> >> No. The closest thing the elements possess that relates to this is >> their *grob cause*. For example the NoteHead grob is often the grob >> cause for the "noteheads.s2" glyph. > > OK, thanks for the explanation. I seem to remember that some time ago > I was in a similar situation, where I wanted to find out some > elements' parent(s) from my code but was unable to, probably for > precisely this reason. Do you happen to know at what stage of the > engraving process elements are aware of their mutual relationships, > just in case I stumble across this problem again in the future?
I don't know for sure, but I would guess that these relationships are set in the engraving/acknowledging step, and that they lose the relationships after they have been converted to stencils (the post page-breaking step, I think). HTH, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
