Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi David, > > I have no idea how you actually call "seems to work", > > namely just _how_ you want self-alignment-X to get factored in, > > considering that the whole point of the dynText function is > to figure out an alignment yielding a text-dependent reference point. > > Sorry I haven't been clear. > > Here is a concrete description/example of what I want, and what I > would say "works": > > 1. Attached is a screenshot of a current score I'm engraving. > > 2. I've used \dynText to create the dynamic "mp intensely". > > 3. Since the layout is such that this falls at the very end of a > system, it messes up the horizontal spacing. > > 4. Using the edition-engraver, I'd like to set self-alignment-X = > #RIGHT (which would allow the note spacing to normalize) and then use > either X-offset or extra-offset to nudge the dynamic back to the right > (to approximate the "proper" alignment). If I can do that, the > mechanism (i.e., function + post-hoc tweak) "works".
Sigh. I repeat: _what_ values of self-alignment-X should move the reference point _where_ in "somewhat f"? The default would be to have -1 be the left border of the whole text, +1 the right border, 0 the _center_ (and _not_ the middle of t and f). You say you want self-alignment-X as +1 refer to the right border. You can already have that by just reverting X-offset to its default and then using self-alignment-X in the old manner. So apparently that is _not_ what you want, but you still fail to specify _what_ you actually want. Without such a specification, there will be no code doing what you want because you just leave far too much in the open. > Although I clearly did not communicate my intention well enough, I > knew *exactly* what I wanted before I started poking around. You have a hand-waving idea about a border case and want to be able to fudge your way around from that. That's too vague for casting into a computer-comprehensible form. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
