Hi Paolo, > The OttavaBracket is already pretty well positioned by Lilypond itself, and > it should be tuned, if necessary, only with that small values. And if you do > this, and you don't want to use the extra-offset property, you are forced to > use the ruler in the way I explained...
So to restate: You’d like a command like \offset (say, \reposition) which tweaks the position of a grob from its final [calculated] position, pushing other grobs (in X or Y directions) as necessary? I can see how that would be a useful addition to the Lilypond codebase. Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info