----- Original Message ---- From: Graham Percival <address.hidden> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:12:56 AM
> I did my horizontal placement can be done with #:translate. What > snippet are you thinking of? I didn't realize there was enough > material to make an "exhaustive" study of the subject. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Tweaks-and-overrides#horizontally-aligning-custom-dynamics-e.g.-sempre-pp,-piu-f,-subito-p.ly > The one tricky thing is the horizontal placement: for things like "mf > dolce", I wanted the "mf" aligned with the notehead. For something > like "sub p", should the "p" be aligned with the notehead, or should > the "sub" be aligned? The above-mentioned snippet argues that the dynamic should be aligned with the notehead, not the italic-text, but intuitively that seems wrong to me. Perhaps it depends on the specific circumstance, but I'm thinking of something like "poco a poco piĆ¹ f". As a musician, I'd start "poco a poco"-ing as soon as the first word starts -- I wouldn't wait till the "f". That said, I wonder what the treatises have to say on the topic (eg. Gardner Read etc.). On a related topic, I recently posted this to lilypond-devel: fetaDynamic glyphs "p" and "f" don't align the same? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-09/msg00264.html Han-Wen said the "p" bounding box is "aligned on the baseline intersection with the stem", and the "f" isn't, but ironically the "f" looks better to me. I propose that the center of a dynamic's bounding box should be aligned with the center of the note-head, not left- aligned with the stem... Anyone interested in tackling this one? - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user