As said in the first post staff-padding seems to have the same problem of Y-offset:
http://lilybin.com/njdr3x/1 outside-staff-padding does the job only if reset; see: http://lilybin.com/yb5u35/4 Then I would consider this a bug. At least one property of OttavaBracket should behave like extra-offset concerning the starting offset. Best, Paolo On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 2:31 AM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote: > On 2020-01-12 5:17 pm, Paolo Prete wrote: > > Unfortunately, with extra-offset I have the disadvantage that all the > > other > > objects are not moved automatically (smart repositioning) > > True, extra-offset is the tool for making changes to the layout after > everything else has been done. It sounded like that was what you were > asking about. > > > Does my example show a bug/missing feature for OttavaBracket? > > Not that I can see. But it seems like Y-offset might not be the right > thing to adjust. Perhaps staff-padding or outside-staff-padding are > better options. > > > -- Aaron Hill > >