Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-10 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Hi Harm, I looked at it quickly and it's an amazing change! I'm not a native speaker either but I will think about it later today and see if I can come up with any improvement of the kind you mentioned. Thank you! El jue., 9 may. 2019 a las 20:49, Thomas Morley () escribió: > Hi Stefano, > > Am M

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-09 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Stefano, Am Mi., 8. Mai 2019 um 05:16 Uhr schrieb Stefano Troncaro : > my workflow in these scenarios is to go to the description of the object > which is giving me trouble, see what interfaces and properties it has, and > from there work out what I need to do. This is also what the Lilypond

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-07 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Admittedly, as opposed to other Grob.padding settings no object is > moved, instead the TextSpanner itself changes its appearance. > I think you nailed the root of why I think the naming is confusing. Funnily enough I do think that the name "padding" is appropriate for Glissandos, where it is a mea

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Di., 7. Mai 2019 um 01:53 Uhr schrieb Stefano Troncaro : > > Hi Harm, honestly because I generally understand "padding" as the amount of > whitespace that should be reserved between objects. Well, that's exactly what happens here. bound-details.right.padding is the amount of white-space betwee

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] I generally understand "padding" as the amount of whitespace > that should be reserved between objects. I never even noticed that > property since in my mind I was looking for something that could in > no way have something to do with it. Anyways, it's not the first > time I find some o

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Stefano, There are many threads in the archives about this inconsistency with text spanners. It's very confusing for users, nad ends up wasting lots of time. It would be great if this could be unified with the 'shorten' commands of other objects, but I realise the developers are hugely constrai

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Hi Harm, honestly because I generally understand "padding" as the amount of whitespace that should be reserved between objects. I never even noticed that property since in my mind I was looking for something that could in no way have something to do with it. Anyways, it's not the first time I find

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Di., 7. Mai 2019 um 00:23 Uhr schrieb Stefano Troncaro : > > Hi Rick, > > Thank you for your answer. I didn't know that 'bound-details had an X > property. It does what I need but it can get tedious to use because I need to > specify a number from the start of the spanner (or the system if the

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Stefano Troncaro
> -- > *From:* lilypond-user outlook@gnu.org> on behalf of Stefano Troncaro < > stefanotronc...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, May 6, 2019 11:50 AM > *To:* lilypond-user Mailinglist > *Subject:* Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end pos

Re: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Rick Kimpel
Mailinglist Subject: Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions? Hello again everyone, I was expecting to be able to use shorten-pair for this in the same way that is used with Hairpins, but it doesn't seem to work and I can't seem to find what property I need to tweak. An

Finetuning TextSpanner beginning and end positions?

2019-05-06 Thread Stefano Troncaro
Hello again everyone, I was expecting to be able to use shorten-pair for this in the same way that is used with Hairpins, but it doesn't seem to work and I can't seem to find what property I need to tweak. Any pointers? Thanks for your help, Stéfano ___