To Aaron (and any other helpful contributor): As you can see in the below snippet, the visualize-padding function you so kindly provided, doesn't work in some cases with TupletBracket. Here is a snippet where the bug occurs.
The problem is associated with: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-01/msg00467.html Sorry if I insist again with this: is there a fix (or work-around) for it? The function is ***very*** useful, You can really see what happens with the discussed property, and you can really use therefore a ruler for fine tuning . Thanks for you help and your patience! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% #(define color-good '(0.2 0.5 0.8)) #(define color-bad '(0.8 0.2 0.3)) #(define line-thickness 0.2) #(define whiteout-thickness 1.5) visualize-padding = #(define-music-function (grob-path color) (symbol-list? color?) (define (proc grob) (let* ((orig (ly:grob-property grob 'stencil)) (xex (ly:stencil-extent orig X)) (yex (ly:stencil-extent orig Y)) ;(yex (ly:make-unpure-pure-container ly:grob::stencil-height (lambda (grob start end) (ly:grob::stencil-height grob)))) (dir (ly:grob-property grob 'direction)) (y (ly:grob-property grob 'padding))) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'layer 1000) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'stencil (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup \overlay { \stencil #orig \with-dimensions-from \null \translate #(cons (interval-index xex 0) (interval-index yex (- dir))) \overlay { \with-color #color \override #'(style . outline) \override #`(thickness . ,whiteout-thickness) \whiteout \scale #(cons 1 (- dir)) \path #0.2 #`( (moveto 0 -2) (lineto 0 0) (moveto -0.5 -1) (lineto 0 0) (lineto 0.5 -1) (moveto -1 0) (lineto 1 0)) \with-color #color \override #'(style . outline) \override #`(thickness . ,whiteout-thickness) \whiteout \scale #(cons 1 dir) \translate #(cons 0 (- y)) \path #line-thickness #`( (moveto 0 -2) (lineto 0 0) (moveto -0.5 -1) (lineto 0 0) (lineto 0.5 -1) (moveto -1 0) (lineto 1 0)) } } #})))) #{ \override $grob-path .after-line-breaking = #proc #}) %%%%%%%%%%%%% upper = { { \visualize-padding TupletBracket #color-good \times 3/3 { c'''4*2/3-\fermata \change Staff = "lower" c'''4*2/3 g'''4*2/3 } c''' } } %end upper lower = { s4 s s} \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "upper" \upper \new Staff = "lower" \lower >> \layout { } \midi { } } %%%%%%%%%%%%%