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LilyPond objects which represent items of notation in the printed output such as note heads, stems, slurs, ties, fingering, clefs, etc are called ‘Layout objects’, often known as ‘GRaphical OBjects’, or grobs for short. They are represented by instances of the Grob class.

See also

Learning Manual: Objects and interfaces, Properties of layout objects.

Notation Reference: Naming conventions.

Internals Reference: grob-interface, All layout objects.


LilyPond — Notation Reference v2.25.4 (development-branch).