Re: left-aligning grobs to other grobs

[David Nalesnik]

On 3/14/11, Gilles THIBAULT <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Attached is a function . . .
>
> Wahoo. Seems to be a very powerfull function. I keep it in my favorites.
> Thanks David.

Glad you can use it!

> NB
> If the user enters the value 2 for example as the dir parameter, the
> function fails.
> Using = < and >  in the last cond expression avoids that.
> (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'extra-offset
>      `(,(cond ((< $dir 0) (- (ly:grob-relative-coordinate ref sys X)
>            default-coord))
>        ((= $dir 0)  (- (interval-center (ly:grob-extent ref sys X))
>            (interval-center (ly:grob-extent grob sys X))))
>        ((> $dir 0)  (- (cdr (ly:grob-extent ref sys X))
>            (cdr (ly:grob-extent grob sys X)))))
>
>    . ,$corr)))))

Thank you very much!  This also fixes the issue of what to do with decimals.

--David