Thank you both! I appreciate the quick turnaround. If the difference in
opinion persists I'll return with a minimal example, but in light of what
you've told me I think we can just proceed as we are.
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>
wrote:
> On 02.05.2018 18:24, Reilly Farrell wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm editing a short score with tuplets and I could use a spacing solution
>> that would keep all tuplet brackets at a fixed minimum distance above the
>> staff. (Feedback I've received so far is that the tuplet indications look
>> messy when printed inside the staff rather than above it.) My question is
>> whether it would be possible to enforce a rule that would keep these
>> brackets above the staff.
>>
>
> Indeed, a minimal example would have been very welcome.
> I have to say this first: tell your client that there’s no good reason for
> keeping tuplets out of the staff. People have all sorts of opinions on what
> looks messy or not, and especially nowadays they tend to be enormously
> hypersensitive against compact layout, resulting in ridiculous waste of
> space.
> But, of course Lily can accommodate your need:
>
> \version "2.19.80"
> {
> %\override TupletBracket.staff-padding = 10
> \override TupletBracket.outside-staff-priority = 100
> \override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##t
> \tupletUp
> \tuplet 3/2 4 { c'8 8 8 d' e' f' d'' e'' f'' }
> }
>
> By setting outside-staff-priority, it becomes an outside-staff object –
> see <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/outsid
> e_002dstaff-objects#the-outside_002dstaff_002dpriority-property>.
> I don’t know why the staff-padding override doesn’t immediately work (in
> this example, it only affects the third bracket, which is why I disabled
> it).
>
> Best, Simon
>
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