Drawing boxes around grobs
Appearance
The stencil property can be overridden to draw a box around arbitrary grobs, either using \override or \tweak.
\version "2.24"
\relative c'' {
\once \override TextScript.stencil =
#(make-stencil-boxer 0.1 0.3 ly:text-interface::print)
c'4^"foo"
\tweak Stem.stencil
#(make-stencil-boxer 0.05 0.25 ly:stem::print)
b8
c4.^"bar" c4
\override Score.RehearsalMark.stencil =
#(make-stencil-boxer 0.15 0.3 ly:text-interface::print)
\mark \default
c1
}