Re: tuplet bracket spanner?

[Reilly Farrell]

Thank you both!  I appreciate the quick turnaround.  If the difference in opinion persists I'll return with a minimal example, but in light of what you've told me I think we can just proceed as we are.  

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:

On 02.05.2018 18:24, Reilly Farrell wrote:

Hi All,

I'm editing a short score with tuplets and I could use a spacing solution that would keep all tuplet brackets at a fixed minimum distance above the staff.  (Feedback I've received so far is that the tuplet indications look messy when printed inside the staff rather than above it.)  My question is whether it would be possible to enforce a rule that would keep these brackets above the staff.

Indeed, a minimal example would have been very welcome.
I have to say this first: tell your client that there’s no good reason for keeping tuplets out of the staff. People have all sorts of opinions on what looks messy or not, and especially nowadays they tend to be enormously hypersensitive against compact layout, resulting in ridiculous waste of space.
But, of course Lily can accommodate your need:

\version "2.19.80"
{
  %\override TupletBracket.staff-padding = 10
  \override TupletBracket.outside-staff-priority = 100
  \override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##t
  \tupletUp
  \tuplet 3/2 4 { c'8 8 8 d' e' f' d'' e'' f'' }
}

By setting outside-staff-priority, it becomes an outside-staff object – see <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-objects#the-outside_002dstaff_002dpriority-property>.
I don’t know why the staff-padding override doesn’t immediately work (in this example, it only affects the third bracket, which is why I disabled it).

Best, Simon

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