Re: docs

[Mats Bengtsson]

Hans de Rijck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some small remarks about the documentation (both html and pdf) for version
> 2.6.

> 6.5.3 Dynamics
>
> Please add a line how to get dynamics aligned. It's now very implicit.
> What I mean is, your example
>     c\< c\! d\> e\!
> leads to a crescendo and a decrescendo that don't align (very ugly!).
> If you do a small concession and write:
>     c\< c\! \> d e\!
> they are perfectly aligned. Of course it would be better if you could order
> lilypond to automatically align dynamics, but we can't have it all.

One method is to increase the staff-padding property, which specifies
the minimum distance from the stave. This means that that the distance
to the closest note will only matter if you have a note far below
the stave. Try for example
\override DynamicLineSpanner #'staff-padding = 2



   /Mats