Re: offset not working

[Kris Shaffer]

Mats,
Thanks for helping me find the init files.  Filename searches in Mac OS X  
Panther do not search the contents of *.app packages, which is why my  
searching came up empty.  But lilypond --verbose told me where to look.

So now I know why no-spacing-rods does not work, and thus why fatText does  
not work, however I still don't know how to get a multirest bar to  
accomodate the width of markup text.  I have gotten close with

      << { R1*4 } \\ { \fatText s1*4^\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip  
. 0.5) \column { \line { etwas ruhiger } werdend } } \emptyText } >>

The width of the bar expands to contain the text, but the multirest is too  
high by two staff lines.  And according to the manual, you cannot adjust  
the "pitch" of a multirest to move it up and down.  If there is another  
way to move the multirest up and down (and keep it centered), then this  
hack will work.  Is that possible?  Or is there another solution to this?   
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Kris


On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:42:49 -0400, Mats Bengtsson  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> It's one of the initialization files that LilyPond reads when started.
> Call LilyPond with the extra flag
> lilypond --verbose
> to get a listing of all initialization files that are read, with the
> full path.
>
> The reason that no-spacing-rods doesn't work for MultiMeasureRestText
> is that this object is a spanner, whereas TextScripts, for example are
> Items. You can get some information on these issues if you look at
> the program reference for spanner-interface and item-interface,
> respectively (Program Reference -> Backend -> Graphical Object
> Interfaces). If you want more details, I'm afraid one of the main
> hackers have to explain.
>
>     /Mats
>
> Kris Shaffer wrote:
> > Is ly/property-init.ly online somewhere?  I can't find a lilypond-doc   
> > package for Mac OS X, and I don't have any lilypond stuff in  
> > /usr/share/.
> >  In the meantime, I tried \override MultiMeasureRestText  
> > #'no-spacing-rods  = ##f in place of \fatText, but it did not work.  I  
> > also found in the  program reference online that, though TextScript  
> > takes #'no-spacing-rods,  MultiMeasureRestText does not.  Did I miss  
> > anything, or would this feature  need to be added?
> >  Kris
> >   On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:25:17 -0400, Graham Percival  
> > <address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > > On 22-Aug-05, at 6:15 PM, Kris Shaffer wrote:
> > >
> > > > One more question on this issue:
> > > > The commands \fatText and \emptyText have no effect on either
> > > >
> > > >     s1*0^\markup {whatever}
> > > >     R1*4
> > > >
> > > > or
> > > >
> > > >     R1*4^\markup {whatever}
> > > >
> > > > How can I automatically apply the width of the markup string to the   
> > > > width of the multi-rest bar?
> > >
> > >
> > > Take a look in ly/property-init.ly to find out what \fatText does,  
> > > then  change
> > > the TextScript to MultiMeasureRestText.
> > >
> > > ly/property.init.ly:
> > > fatText = \override TextScript  #'no-spacing-rods = ##f
> > > emptyText = \override TextScript  #'no-spacing-rods = ##t
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've added the following to the manual:
> > >
> > > Warning!  This text is created by @code{MultiMeasureRestText}, not
> > > @code{TextScript}.
> > >
> > > {
> > > \override TextScript #'padding = #5
> > > R1^"low"
> > > \override MultiMeasureRestText #'padding = #5
> > > R1^"high"
> > > }



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Kris Shaffer
graduate student in music theory, Yale University
www.shaffermusic.com