Re: Moving dynamics (with \dynamicsUp) to the left of the note

[Trevor Daniels]

Yes, I thought of this soon after my last reply.  One way is to set the 
Y-extent to 0, like this:

 \once \override DynamicText #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0)

It then appears to have zero height and the staves move closer together.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>
To: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LILYPOND Mailinglist" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Moving dynamics (with \dynamicsUp) to the left of the note


> Am Montag, 26. Mai 2008 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> > Hi Reinhold
> >
> > The only way to generate overlapping layout objects is with extra-offset,
> > AFAIK.  So for dynamics this will fix the positioning:
> >
> > \once \override DynamicText #'extra-offset = #'(dx . dy)
>
> Yes, that's what I was using initially anyway.
> The problem with this is that the dynamic is only shifted after 
> positioning
> and staff spacing is done, so even if you shift the dynamics inside the
> staff, the staff spacing will remain the same large spacing.
>
> For an example, see the third line of the attached file (where I cut down 
> the
> lyrics padding to a minimum as the first line shows), where there is 
> really a
> lot of unused space, which I really need to recover. In particular notice
> that the second (with the dynamic above the staff) and the rhird line 
> (with
> the dynamic moved inside the staff so the staves could be moved closer
> together without collisions) show exactly the same spacing, which is clear
> from the documentation, because extra-offset is applied after layouting.
>
> However, I want the staff spacing to take place after I have moved the
> dynamics. Otherwise the lyrics staves are spaced much more than all the 
> other
> staves and the page layout of my full score looks really ugly and runs 
> afoul
> any layouting practice, which says that different groups of staves should 
> be
> spaced more than the staves inside a group, see e.g. Heussenstamm or Read.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
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