Reviewers: Graham Percival, Trevor Daniels,
Message:
Please review.
Description:
A minor change to try to make the dynamics spacing section at least
accurate - ditto a small change on fingering placement.
Please review this at https://codereview.appspot.com/11455046/
Affected files:
M Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
Index: Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
diff --git a/Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
b/Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
index
7d731aad7708905b680c7b490d1b516f6e225862..f01b0428b63bc6d96862d5c1edfcf3fb395f6cfc
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--- a/Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
+++ b/Documentation/learning/tweaks.itely
@@ -2351,7 +2351,7 @@ shows:
@lilypond[quote,fragment,ragged-right,verbatim,relative=2]
\dynamicUp
-a4\f b\mf c\mp b\p
+a4\f b\mf a\mp b\p
@end lilypond
@noindent
@@ -2384,16 +2384,17 @@ These are properties of all grobs which support the
By default, outside-staff objects are given a width of zero so
that they may overlap in the horizontal direction. This is done
-by the trick of adding infinity to the leftmost extent and
-minus infinity to the rightmost extent by setting the
-@code{extra-spacing-width} to @code{'(+inf.0 . -inf.0)}. So
-to ensure they do not overlap in the horizontal direction we
-must override this value of @code{extra-spacing-width} to
-@code{'(0 . 0)} so the true width shines through. This is
-the command to do this for dynamic text:
+by the trick of setting the leftmost extent to infinity and
+the rightmost extent to minus infinity by setting the
+@code{extra-spacing-width} to @code{'(+inf.0 . -inf.0)}. To
+ensure they do not overlap in the horizontal direction we
+must override this value of @code{extra-spacing-width} to give them
+a little extra spacing. The units are the space between two staff
+lines, so moving the left edge half a unit to the left and the
+right edge half a unit to the right should do it:
@example
-\override DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)
+\override DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = #'(-0.5 . 0.5)
@end example
@noindent
@@ -2402,31 +2403,12 @@ Let's see if this works in our previous example:
@cindex DynamicText, example of overriding
@cindex extra-spacing-width property, example
-@lilypond[quote,fragment,ragged-right,verbatim,relative=2]
-\dynamicUp
-\override DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)
-a4\f b\mf c\mp b\p |
-@end lilypond
-
-@noindent
-Well, it has certainly stopped the dynamic marks being
-displaced, but two problems remain. The marks should be
-spaced a little further apart and it would be better
-if they were all the same distance from the staff.
-We can solve the first problem easily. Instead of making
-the @code{extra-spacing-width} zero we could add a little
-more to it. The units are the space between two staff
-lines, so moving the left edge half a unit to the left and the
-right edge half a unit to the right should do it:
-
-@cindex DynamicText, example of overriding
-@cindex extra-spacing-width property, example
@lilypond[quote,fragment,ragged-right,verbatim,relative=2]
\dynamicUp
% Extend width by 1 staff space
\override DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = #'(-0.5 . 0.5)
-a4\f b\mf c\mp b\p
+a4\f b\mf a\mp b\p
@end lilypond
@noindent
@@ -2808,15 +2790,15 @@ example taken from the previous section:
\override DynamicText.extra-spacing-width = #'(-0.5 . 0.5)
% Align dynamics to a base line 2 units above staff
\override DynamicLineSpanner.staff-padding = #2
-a4\f b\mf c\mp b\p
+a4\f b\mf a\mp b\p
@end lilypond
@node The self-alignment-X property
@unnumberedsubsubsec The @code{self-alignment-X} property
-The following example shows how this can resolve the collision
-of a string fingering object with a note's stem by aligning the
+The following example shows how to adjust the position
+of a string fingering object with reference to a note's stem by aligning
the
right edge with the reference point of the parent note:
@cindex StringNumber, example of overriding
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