Hello James, Yes, that is certainly a much easier solution. For some reason when I tried your override last night, it had no effect -- hence my experimenting. I suppose I must have placed it badly, because now it works just fine.
Anyway, best of luck! On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:15 AM, James Bailey <derhindem...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > On 26.01.2010, at 02:01, David Nalesnik wrote: > > Hello, > > Fiddling around with the snippet "Centering markup on noteheads > automatically," http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=637 I came up with > something which might be useful (or duplicate a far easier solution!). I > realize that it doesn't address the problem of center-aligning only the > dynamic (the function seems to align the left edge of the dynamic with the > note -- hence my guess at an offset of 0.6). Of course, this offset would > have to be adjusted for "pp" "ppp," etc. At least this will give similar > results for "p, dolce" "p, espressivo" and so on. > > \version "2.12.3" > > pcantabile = #( > make-dynamic-script ( > markup #:line ( > #:dynamic "p" #:hspace -1 #:normal-text #:italic ", cantabile" > ) > ) > ) > > dynamicTextLeftAlign = \once \override DynamicText #'X-offset = > #(lambda (grob) > (- > (+ > (ly:self-alignment-interface::x-aligned-on-self grob) > (interval-center > (ly:grob-robust-relative-extent grob grob X))) > 0.6)) > > { > \dynamicTextLeftAlign > a'\pcantabile b' c' d' > } > > > Given that the values would probably have to be changed in different > context, hard-coding a number to this is really not a very good solution. > Also, since the alignment is easily achieved with \once \override > DynamicText #'X-offset = -1. It's far easier to just use that, and always > get the alignment I want. However, you did give me a brilliant idea. Chain > the two together. instead of having a variable assigned to the dynamic + > text and a variable to the shift, I can just have a variable assigned to do > both at the same time, i.e., pcantabile = \once \override … #( > make-dynamic-script… >
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