Thank you Thomas for working on this.
Personally I came recently to think that "Doing The Right Thing™"
would be to have on option to **align** texts on dynamics.
Something like
\override TextScript.align-on-simultaneous-dynamic = ##t
and then
c'1\mp_\markup \italic "dolce" % would give "mp dolce"
We could even have an option to place text right or left from dynamics
or also decouple texts from dynamics if desired.
I'm dreaming.
Anyway I'll probably use the function developed as soon as I have a
released version with it implemented and if I can find how to use it
in the documentation.
So thanks everyone.
Cheers,
Xavier
On 29 August 2017 at 22:31, Kieren MacMillan <
address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Xavier,
>
> > For correct alignment of "dynamic + text" (or "text + dynamic") I used
> > to rely on Graham's "make-dynamic-extra" function, which worked well.
>
> It's hardly perfect, though — for example, the dynamic isn't centred correctly here:
>
> %%% SNIPPET BEGINS
> \version "2.19.64"
> #(define (make-dynamic-extra dynamic string)
> (make-music
> 'AbsoluteDynamicEvent
> 'tweaks
> ;; calculate centering for text
> (list (cons (quote X-offset)
> (+ -0.5 (* -0.5 (string-length dynamic)))))
> 'text
> (markup #:whiteout
> #:line (
> dynamic
> #:hspace 0.5
> #:normal-text #:italic string))
> ))
>
> test = #(make-dynamic-extra "fmf" "dolce")
>
> { a1\test }
> %%% SNIPPET ENDS
>
> > Is your new \dynamic function an improved version of this?
> > And what does it add more?
>
> I'm hoping this conversation ends with us having a function that will truly Do The Right Thing™, in all reasonable situations.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
> ________________________________
>
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