RE: Aligning "sempre pp" with "p"...

[Trevor Daniels]

Hi Reinhold

An easier solution is to define a markup command:

sempp = #(markup
  #:halign 1.4
  #:italic "sempre"
  #:dynamic "pp"
)

a_\sempp g \p c a

The semprePP can be positioned as you like, and takes up no
extra space.  However, the dynamics do not affect the MIDI
output.

\halign works fine in ordinary markup, and as #:halign
above, but does not seem to have any effect in a dynamic
script.  Maybe I haven't yet found out how to do this
correctly.  Anyone?

Trevor D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhold Kainhofer [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 10 February 2008 18:29
> To: Kieren MacMillan; LILYPOND Mailinglist; Trevor Daniels
> Subject: Re: Aligning "sempre pp" with "p"...
>
>
> Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2008 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi Reinhold,
> >
> > > What I'm looking for is to align the pp of
> "sempre pp" with the
> > > note it is attached to.
> >
> > \once \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #...
>
> Oops, my bad. I should have tried that and not
> discarded that thought without
> further investigation. I had a knot in my brain
> and thought that simply
> shifting would break with different staff sizes,
> but of course the shift is
> relativ to the staff size, too, so it works
> independent of the particular
> staff size...
>
> Now, I'm only looking for a way to set this
> property directly inside my \sempp
> function, so that one does not need to add the
> \once\override manually
> whenever one uses \sempp.
> I could have used something like this already in
> lots of places, where I need
> to apply the same adjustment to some
> markup/dynamics, but can't set it
> globally. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Btw, Trevor's solution almost works in this
> regard, with the only problem that
> another dynamic text on the next note is shifted
> down, because the \hspace is
> still in effect... (see attached file)
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
>
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