Re: Moving dynamics (with \dynamicsUp) to the left of the note

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Montag, 26. Mai 2008 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> Hi Reinhold
>
> The only way to generate overlapping layout objects is with extra-offset,
> AFAIK.  So for dynamics this will fix the positioning:
>
> \once \override DynamicText #'extra-offset = #'(dx . dy)

Yes, that's what I was using initially anyway. 
The problem with this is that the dynamic is only shifted after positioning 
and staff spacing is done, so even if you shift the dynamics inside the 
staff, the staff spacing will remain the same large spacing. 

For an example, see the third line of the attached file (where I cut down the 
lyrics padding to a minimum as the first line shows), where there is really a 
lot of unused space, which I really need to recover. In particular notice 
that the second (with the dynamic above the staff) and the rhird line (with 
the dynamic moved inside the staff so the staves could be moved closer 
together without collisions) show exactly the same spacing, which is clear 
from the documentation, because extra-offset is applied after layouting.

However, I want the staff spacing to take place after I have moved the 
dynamics. Otherwise the lyrics staves are spaced much more than all the other 
staves and the page layout of my full score looks really ugly and runs afoul 
any layouting practice, which says that different groups of staves should be 
spaced more than the staves inside a group, see e.g. Heussenstamm or Read.


Cheers,
Reinhold
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