RE: Piano Centered Dynamics and bar collision - again

[Trevor Daniels]

Kieren MacMillan wrote on 10 December 2007 14:28
> 
> However, it did give me a brainstorm that might 
> be helpful: is there  
> a way to wrap (by default) every dynamic in a 
> white outline? That  
> way, the font outline would mask out the barline 
> immediately around  
> the f (or whatever the dynamic is), as I've often 
> seen in hand- 
> engraved scores.
> 
Well, there is, although I didn't know it until I
went looking!  You have to change the dynamic into 
a markup to do it, but it does seem to allow the
printing of dynamics across barlines in a way that
looks good.  The key command is \whiteout.  Try 
this:

\version "2.11.34"
\paper {
  ragged-right = ##t
}
\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff = RH {
    \clef "treble"
    \relative c'' { 
      c1 
      c4_\markup \center-align {\whiteout \dynamic ffff} 
      c c c 
    }
  }
  \new Staff = LH {
    \clef "bass"
    \relative c { c1 c1 }
  }
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> Best wishes,
> Kieren.
> 
Trevor D