Re: Music function fails

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 05.03.2015 um 12:58 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I use a music function to tweak the X and Y-offsets for a grob. This
> > function used to work in 2.19.8, but in 2.19.15 and .16 it just
> > remains without effect – there are no kind of messages. Any idea where
> > this might come from?
> I don't see that it remains without effect: using different values
> clearly shows an effect here.
I should have been more precise: it’s only _negative_ Y-offset values 
that remain without effect, which is a pity, since dynamics overlapping 
with staff lines are the biggest point about using the function at all. 
After reading the issues you pointed to – from which I couldn’t now draw 
information in respect to this particular problem – I also checked the 
2.19.16 IR DynamicText page 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/dynamictext>, and 
the only property that might be relevant is Y-offset, correct me if I’m 
mistaken. DynamicText isn’t aligned to anything vertically.
However, I’ll post the question to ly-user then.

Yours, Simon
>   That the effect is different from
> previously is likely due to how the default way of calculating
> alignment/offset has changed.
>
> See <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3978>,
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4036>,
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4022>.
>
> If you have additional suggestions to make, they probably would pick up
> starting with one of those reports.