On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 06:35 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> 
> why can I say
> 
>   \new PianoStaff \with {
>     \override StaffGrouper
>       #'between-staff-spacing #'minimum-distance = #20
>   } ...
> 
> but not
> 
>   \new Staff \with {
>     \override VerticalAxisGroup
>       #'next-staff-spacing #'minimum-distance = #20
>   } ...
> 
> ?

Because next-staff-spacing defaults to a callback rather than to an
alist. IWBN if one could use the nested property syntax for overriding
callbacks but it isn't quite trivial to implement, as far as I can see.

Joe




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