Re: spanner padding

[Patrick McCarty]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 2.) The default settings for bound-details must be wrong.
>    Can someone double-check them? Shouldn't the X-value
>    for (left) stencil-offset be set to the same value as
>    (left) padding? Every "cresc." I see in LilyPond is
>    strangely shifted 0.5 units to the right. This can't
>    be correct. I like the 0.75 value of right padding; I
>    propose 0.75 for left padding and (0.75 . -0.5) for
>    left stencil-offset.
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/DynamicTextSpanner
>
>   bound-details (list):
>
>   '((right (attach-dir . -1) (Y . 0) (padding . 0.75))
>     (right-broken (attach-dir . 1) (padding . 0.0))
>     (left (attach-dir . -1) (Y . 0) (stencil-offset 0 . -0.5) (padding . 0.5))
>     (left-broken (attach-dir . 1)))

Neil submitted a patch recently to fix this exact issue, but it was
then reverted because it broke a regression test.

Here are a couple of posts from the mailing lists that provide a
little more insight:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2008-07/msg00084.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-09/msg00198.html

So, in other words, this is an open issue.

-Patrick