Re: Shifting text markup and reharsal marks

[Antonio Palama]

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> My understanding of "padding" is to ensure separation to the next object.
>
> I frequently use "extra-offset" instead of padding to move text, and that gives
> both horizontal and vertical.  Format is (from memory - horiz & vert might be
> interchanged)
>
>    \property Voice.TextScript \override #'extra-offset = #'( horiz  . vert )
>
> and I usually use the \once operator since the offset is usually for the next
> markup only.  {Replace horiz and vert with numeric values in staff spaces.)   I
> haven't tried whether the values can be 'real' or fractions, so far I've only
> needed integer, but I can see fractions being required.
>
> I personally think that would be a mistake to allow move/position by absolute
> distances, since the score could be recast in any number of sizes (13, 16, 20
> point, etc.)  The scaling factor of 'staff spaces' allows for appropriate
> relative tracking.
>
> HTH
> /Hans
>
>
>  
Thank you; this is exactly what I was looking for; will try it tonight.
I agree that absolute distances are not the proper way to handle
this problem but until now, the only way I found to do offsets was
the LaTeX hack:
c4^"\\hspace{5mm} Allegro"
or something similar.
Does the  instruction you give modify the offset of rehearsal marks too or
have I to use a diffent property like Voice.RehearsalMark or something
similar?

Thanks again,

Antonio