Re: Shift up OttavaBracket

[Paolo Prete]

Well, I investigated as well. I think that the only way to solve this is to use the combination

Y-offset + \offset + 2.19

As you can see, this seems to work in 2.19

http://lilybin.com/yb5u35/12

And it doesn't work in 2.18.

Correct me if I'm wrong: this is currently the *only* proper way to shift OttavaBracket if you want to avoid using extra-offset. The other methods appear to me almost unusable.

HTH

Paolo

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:10 PM David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> >> 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?
>
> > \offset would do exactly that if there were a single property of
> > OttavaBracket which represents its position fully.  The bracket's
> > final position is represented by Y-offset *and* something else.
>
> So can \offset be made to work with OttavaBracket (and other grobs that are positioned similarly)?
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
> ________________________________

I'm going to investigate this.

\offset requires a grob property which is assigned a default value in
define-grobs.scm (from which file the IR grob reference pages are
generated). The more items that have defaults there, the better.

David