Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-13 Thread Peter Chubb
kieren == kieren macmillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kieren Mats, I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of X-offset and bound-padding

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, You make this look right now, e.g., by c1 \\ {s2\ s4. \! s8} ... which is both musically incorrect AND unnecessarily awkward to code. ;-) This is really something that Lilypond SHOULD handle more gracefully. Even my suggested fix -- which would be superior to the

Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Kim Bastin
What's the override for moving the ends of a hairpin horizontally? I need to start one a little to the right of its default position because it collides with a cross-staffed note. But I can only find information about moving hairpins vertically. I tried this: \once \override Hairpin

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Mark Knoop
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:20 +1000, Kim Bastin wrote: What's the override for moving the ends of a hairpin horizontally? I need to start one a little to the right of its default position because it collides with a cross-staffed note. But I can only find information about moving hairpins

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of X-offset and bound-padding to get what you want, but I'm not convinced that this is the expected

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread kieren_macmillan
Mats, I would have though that \override Hairpin #'bound-padding = #2.0 should do the job, but it seems that it only affect the right end, not the left end. Of course, you could then use a combination of X-offset and bound-padding to get what you want, but I'm not convinced that this is the

Re: Moving a hairpin horizontally

2008-05-12 Thread Kim Bastin
Thanks Mark. My own solution, finally, was to define a dummy dynamic: spacer = #(make-dynamic-script (markup )) and attach it to the starting note, where it displaces the left end of the hairpin to the right by about the width of a notehead. It's not the finest control, and it has kludge