Is it possible to modify this tweak to include padding (left & right) for the individual gliss lines?
#(define (radians->degree radians) (/ (* radians 180) PI)) #(define ((gliss-plus-text padding text) grob) (let* ((text-stencil (grob-interpret-markup grob text)) (spanner-stencil (ly:line-spanner::print grob)) (left-bound-info (ly:grob-property grob 'left-bound-info)) (y-left (cdar left-bound-info)) (right-bound-info (ly:grob-property grob 'right-bound-info)) (y-right (cdar right-bound-info)) (slant (if (> y-right y-left) 1 -1)) (spanner-stencil-x-length (interval-length (ly:stencil-extent spanner-stencil X))) (spanner-stencil-y-length (interval-length (ly:stencil-extent spanner-stencil Y))) (alpha (radians->degree (atan (/ spanner-stencil-y-length spanner-stencil-x-length)))) (spanner-center-X (interval-center (ly:stencil-extent spanner-stencil X))) (label-center-X (interval-center (ly:stencil-extent text-stencil X)))) (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge spanner-stencil Y UP (ly:stencil-translate (ly:stencil-rotate text-stencil (* slant alpha) 0 0) (cons (- spanner-center-X label-center-X) 0)) (+ (* -0.5 spanner-stencil-y-length) padding)))) glissTweak = #(define-music-function (parser location lst)(pair?) #{ \once \override Glissando #'after-line-breaking = #(lambda (grob) (let ((gliss-count (ly:grob-property grob 'glissando-index))) (map (lambda (x) (let ((gliss-nmbr (car x)) (property-value-alist (cdr x))) (if (eq? gliss-nmbr gliss-count) (map (lambda (y) (ly:grob-set-property! grob (car y) (cdr y))) property-value-alist) #f))) ; $lst))) % for Version "2.14.2" lst))) $(make-music 'EventChord 'elements (list (make-music 'GlissandoEvent))) #}) tweakedGliss = { \once \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #8 \once \override Glissando #'springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods } \relative c' { \override TextScript #'font-size = #-2 <c e g bes d>2\glissando^"\"no tweaks\"" <d, a' fis' c' e'> \tweakedGliss \glissTweak #`((0 . ((color . ,red) (normalized-endpoints . (0 . 0.8)) (stencil . ,(gliss-plus-text -1.8 (markup #:italic #:fontsize -8 "gliss."))))) (1 . ((style . zigzag))) (2 . ((style . trill) (color . (0.5 0.5 0.5)))) (3 . ((style . dashed-line))) (4 . ((stencil . ,(gliss-plus-text 0 (markup #:italic #:fontsize -8 "gliss."))) (normalized-endpoints . (0 . 2.7)) (color . ,green)))) <c' e g bes d>2^"\"some tweaks\"" <d, a' fis' c' e'> \once \override Glissando #'(bound-details right arrow) = ##t \glissTweak #`((0 . ((style . dashed-line) (normalized-endpoints . (0 . -2.1)))) (1 . ((stencil . #f))) (2 . ((stencil . #f))) (3 . ((stencil . #f))) (4 . ((style . dashed-line) (normalized-endpoints . (0 . -1.5))))) <c' e g bes d>2^"\"some other tweaks\"" <d, a' fis' c' e'> }