Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi David, > >> The tweak applies fine but self-alignment-X is consulted in the normal >> callback for X-offset which has been replaced by a callback using the >> formula (- 1 (/ width 2)) . If you want self-alignment-X to be heeded >> in there in some manner, you need to incorporate it in the callback for >> the offset. > > Thanks for the explanation. > > The problem is, I want to eat my cake and have it too: I want a > function (cf. \dynText) which combines a dynamic text with a piece of > normal text and automatically sets the correct alignment (i.e., with > the dynamic portion aligned as if there were no subsequent normal > text), but I want to be able to manually tweak it afterwards (to avoid > collisions, improve score aesthetics, etc.). Unfortunately, that > "layout-time" tweak — which may be different for different "editions" > — cannot be cooked into the function without (e.g.) tagging or similar > content-presentation mixing, which I'd desperately like to avoid. > > Can \dynText or similar be fashioned in such a way that leaves open > the possibility of [effectively] tweaking the grob later in the > process?
I repeat: If you want self-alignment-X to be heeded in there in some manner, you need to incorporate it in the callback for the offset. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
