Re: dynamics positioning

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On 29 oct. 2012, at 15:13, Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Well, first of all, in the future, you can just paste code right into the 
> body of your email, like I'm about to do--no need for an attachment. :-) And 
> second, I would dispute that you couldn't get it smaller--like the page I 
> referenced says, very few tiny examples are longer than about 10 lines of 
> code. That being said...
> 
> You need to include the Dynamics context within your score block, like so:
> 
> dynamics = {
>  \time 3/8
>  \times 2/3 { s8\mf s32 s32 s8.\pp \times 8/13 { s64 s16 s16 s16\pp } s64. 
> s64 s64.] } |
> }
> 
> % All other variables go here, unchanged %
> 
> {
>  \new StaffGroup <<
>    \new Dynamics \dynamics
>    \new Staff = "cymbals" \cymbals
>    \new Staff = "temple" \temple
>    \new Staff = "toms" \toms
>    \new Staff = "conga" \conga
>    \new Staff = "snare"  \snare
>>> 
> }
> 
> Unfortunately, while this corrects the horizontal alignment of the grobs 
> within the Dynamics context, they now collide with the beams, so the vertical 
> spacing needs to be adjusted. I'm not sure how to do that without having to 
> adjust 'Y-offset for each individual DynamicText, so I'm gonna have to punt 
> this to someone else on the list.
> 
> DR
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:53 AM
> To: Daniel Rosen
> Cc: lilypond-user
> Subject: Re: dynamics positioning
> 
> Sorry for the oversight. The attached code is as minimal as I can get it.
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> On 10/29/2012 02:48 PM, Daniel Rosen wrote:
>> Can't really tell from the attachment. As a rule, tiny excerpts of 
>> code (which other users can compile themselves) are more useful for 
>> debugging than PDFs. Check out: 
>> http://www.lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html
>> 
>> DR
>> 
>> From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:45 AM
>> To: Daniel Rosen
>> Cc: lilypond-user
>> Subject: Re: dynamics positioning
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> My logic suggests it should be enough to add this line above the cymbals 
>> part, but it doesn't seems to work (see attached file).
>> 
>> 
>> \new Dynamics {
>> \time 3/8
>> \times 2/3 { s8\mf s32 s32 s8.\pp \times 8/13 { s64 s16 s16 s16\pp } 
>> s64. s64 s64.] } | }
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>> 
>> On 10/29/2012 02:19 PM, Daniel Rosen wrote:
>> Try using two Dynamics contexts, one above and one below.
>> 
>> DR
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter O'Doherty [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:14 AM
>> To: lilypond-user
>> Subject: dynamics positioning
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Could someone please take a look at the attached file and help with the 
>> placement of dynamics + hairpins? (I also attach an example output.) Ideally 
>> they would be grouped together above the top stave for the upper notes and 
>> below the lower stave for the lower notes. ^ and _ have little effect.
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Peter
>> 
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I had to take a break from LilyPond development for a couple months but I hope 
to be back on board in a month or so.  This was the exact problem that I was 
working on.  The long and short of it is that LilyPond does not know how to 
handle cross-staff objects in vertical spacing.  As a result, there are 
collisions.  There is no good way to get around this save manually overriding 
things like Y-offset or, if necessary, extra-Y-offset.

Cheers,
MS