VS: DynamicTextSpanner spacing

[Erika Pirnes]

Thank you Aaron, it seems to work! But what does stencil mean exactly?

Best,

Erika

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Lähettäjä: Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com>
Lähetetty: lauantai 5. maaliskuuta 2022 18.35
Vastaanottaja: Erika Pirnes <erika.pirnes@hotmail.com>
Kopio: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Aihe: Re: DynamicTextSpanner spacing

 

On 2022-03-05 3:49 pm, Erika Pirnes wrote:
> I would like the dotted line of the crescendo to start a bit later and
> end a bit earlier. It is too close to "cresc.", in my opinion at
> least. And sometimes too close to the "f" as well. (A tiny detail, for
> sure, but it looks annoying.) Any ideas?
> [...]
> music = \relative c' {
>   \repeat unfold 5{c8 \p \cresc d e f g a b4 c8 \f b c2.}
> }

You will need to play around with the bound-details for the
DynamicTextSpanner:

%%%%
\version "2.18.2"

\relative c' {
   %% The space before the left side of the spanner.
   %% (NOTE: This includes the attached stencil.)
   %% Default is 0.75; we are adding two units of space.
   \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details.left.padding = #2.75

   %% Since we want the space between the stencil and
   %% line, we need to shift the stencil over a bit.
   %% Default is (-0.75 . -0.5); we move it left by the
   %% same increment we applied to the padding above.
   \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details
     .left.stencil-offset = #'(-2.75 . -0.5)

   %% The space after the right side of the spanner.
   %% Default is 0.75; we are adding two units of space.
   \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details.right.padding = #2.75

   %% (For debugging only...)
   %% Highlight the grob in red for better visibility.
   %% Also make the line solid to show its extents clearly.
   \override DynamicTextSpanner.color = #red
   \override DynamicTextSpanner.dash-fraction = #1

   \repeat unfold 5{ c8 \p \cresc d e f g a b4 c8 \f b c2. }
}
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill