Refined trick for dynamics in vocal music

[David Feuer]

On 3/1/07, Arvid Grøtting <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've started using
>
>     \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #-2
>
> in vocal pieces now.  With 2.11, you only need to move them left; skyline stuff
> moves them down if possible.  This is way, *way* cool.
>
> With very long dynamic texts, like \pppp, you may need to put a \once
> \override... with another number just before that dynamic, of course.

After several failed attempts, I believe I have discovered how to
gracefully handle dynamic marks of all lengths:

\override DynamicText #'self-alignment-X = #1
\override DynamicText #'X-offset =
     #(lambda (grob)
          (- (ly:self-alignment-interface::x-aligned-on-self grob)
          0.9))

Where the 0.9 can be adjusted to move the mark by different amounts.
I'm still not entirely pleased with the visual effect.  I think the
mark should probably not move as much to the left for low notes as it
does for high notes, I don't know how to make that kind of tweak, if
it's even possible.

David