Re: horizontal position of augmentation dots

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 07:56 -0800, Knute Snortum wrote:
> When you read the documentation for an interface, check the bottom of
> the page for "This object supports the following interface(s):".  In
> this case it's the grob-interface that has the extra-offset property.

Ah, yes, thank you. It's a sort of multiple inheritance thing I
guess...

Richard


> --
> Knute Snortum
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:10 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com
> > wrote:
> > On Sun, 2020-12-06 at 16:52 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> > > Hi Richard,
> > > How about:
> > > 
> > > \version "2.20.0"
> > > A = {f2~  f8. s16 s4 }
> > > B = {bes,2~  
> > >      \tweak Dots.extra-offset #'(-.8 . 0)
> > >      bes,8. bes,32 a, bes,16 c d e }
> > > 
> > > \score {
> > > \new Staff  << 
> > >  \new Voice   {\voiceOne \clef bass \A }
> > >  \new Voice   {\voiceTwo \B }
> > >             >> 
> > >        }
> > 
> > Thank you! I'm disconcerted that I didn't find this for myself. I
> > got
> > to this page
> > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/dots
> > but it didn't seem to lead to extra-offset as a property... I
> > suppose I
> > need to tweak LilyPond so rarely that I get out of practice at
> > finding
> > things in the documentation (this was my first bit of polyphony for
> > ten
> > years!).
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Pierre
> > > 
> > > Le dim. 6 déc. 2020 à 15:32, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.c
> > om>
> > > a écrit :
> > > > I struck me that this score:
> > > > 
> > > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > > > \version "2.20.0"
> > > > A = {f2~  f8. s16 s4 }
> > > > B = {bes,2~  bes,8. bes,32 a, bes,16 c d e }
> > > > 
> > > > \score {
> > > > \new Staff  << 
> > > >  \new Voice   {\voiceOne \clef bass \A }
> > > >  \new Voice  {\voiceTwo \B }
> > > >             >> 
> > > >        }
> > > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > > > 
> > > > has the lower dotted note vertically aligned with the upper one
> > > > (see
> > > > attached pdf). I thought it might be nicer to move the lower
> > dot
> > > > closer
> > > > to its notehead, but I couldn't find out how to do that. With a
> > lot
> > > > of
> > > > things there are properties to tweak but this didn't seem to
> > the
> > > > the
> > > > case for augmentation dots.
> > > > Perhaps someone could steer me in the right direction?
> > > > 
> > > > Richard Shann
> > > > 
> > 
> >