Re: Moving a volta bracket vertically

[Mats Bengtsson]

The common alignment of the different endings is now handled by the 
VoltaBracketSpanner
object, so to move the brackets vertically, you can use
\override Score.VoltaBracketSpanner #'padding = #3  % Default = 1.0

However, if you want to lower it, then you could do as Risto propose, 
namely to
modify the Y-extent value, but perhaps it makes more sense to do the 
setting on
VoltaBracketSpanner instead of VoltaBracket:

\override Score.VoltaBracketSpanner #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0)

  /Mats

Risto Vääräniemi wrote:
> Dear Sven,
>
> 2008/4/27 Sven Axelsson :
>   
> >  Could someone please tell
> >  me what the current way of moving the volta brackets down, possibly
> >  overlapping the music, would be?
> >     
>
> I've been wondering that, too, but I've found no magic bullet so far.
> Sometimes I have used extra-offset to lower the VoltaBracket to the
> desired level. That, however, takes place after the spacing
> calculations have already been made. On tightly set pages this is not
> good.
>
> Another way is to use Y-extent and minimum-Y-extent. In this case you
> have to calculate (test) the right values for the Y extent and the
> height of the bracket. The upside is that this way the spacing
> calculations should be correct. See the example.
>
> Question:
> Could VoltaBracket be changed in such a way that it would sense the
> skyline and lower itself closer to the staff if the stuff would not
> collide with the bracket or the volta number?
>
> -Risto
>
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.11.43"
>
> \paper
> {
>     ragged-right = ##t
> }
>
> \relative c'
> {
>     \override Score.VoltaBracket #'edge-height = #'(3.0 . 3.0)
>     \override Score.VoltaBracket #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0.0)
>     \override Score.VoltaBracket #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0.35 . 0.0)
>
>     \repeat volta 2 {
>     c1
>     }\alternative {{
>     c2 c^\f
>     }{
>     c2 c \bar "|."}}
> }
> %%%%
>   
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