On Aug 11, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Neil Puttock wrote:

> On 11 August 2011 12:34, m...@apollinemike.com <m...@apollinemike.com> wrote:
> 
>> I figured out why it works - I figured I'd post this to the list in case 
>> anyone else ever wants to mess around with pure properties.
>> 
>> The StemTremolo is added to the paper column's element grob array via the 
>> axis-group-engraver because it does not have an axis-group-parent-Y.
> 
> I think you mean the VerticalAxisGroup's elements array.
> 
> The StemTremolo is added to a PaperColumn's elements array (and gets
> the column as axis-group-parent-X) in the Paper_column_engraver.
> 

Yes, you're absolutely right.

>> Then, when horizontal spacing happens, its pure height function is passed 
>> through for its print function (separation-item.cc).
> 
> I think I understand: before you added the print-to-height conversion,
> the original height callback (ly:stem-tremolo::height) wasn't
> pure-relevant; this resulted in Item::pure_height () returning an
> empty extent, causing the StemTremolo to be left out of the skyline.
> This didn't matter unless the spacing was really tight.
> 

Yup!

Cheers,
MS
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