Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi Paolo, > >> The OttavaBracket is already pretty well positioned by Lilypond > itself, and it should be tuned, if necessary, only with that small > values. And if you do this, and you don't want to use the extra-offset > property, you are forced to use the ruler in the way I explained... > > So to restate: You’d like a command like \offset (say, \reposition) > which tweaks the position of a grob from its final [calculated] > position, pushing other grobs (in X or Y directions) as necessary? I > can see how that would be a useful addition to the Lilypond codebase.
What's wrong with \offset itself? -- David Kastrup