Re: Increase distance from staff for dynamics

[Simon Albrecht]

On 11.09.2016 02:19, B~M wrote:
> Simon is there a similar command which fixes the padding for text 
> spanners, or does the command you posted do that anyway ? 

Of course there is a similar command, but the one I posted is an 
override for DynamicLineSpanner, which is a meta-grob taking care of 
vertical alignment of dynamics in a staff. Text spanners are – 
TextSpanner grobs (wow!), so you have to override their padding.

\version "2.18.2"
{
  \override TextSpanner.padding = 5
  c'1-\tweak bound-details.left.text "test" \startTextSpan
  c'1\stopTextSpan
}

See 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/tweaking-basics> 
and 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-override-command>.

Best, Simon