Re: Moving dynamic markings & changing font weight

[Graham Percival]

On 28-Mar-06, at 6:14 PM, Geoff Horton wrote:

> I found a post on the list which suggests using the staff-padding
> parameter to put all dynamic markings on the same baseline. But it
> didn't say, and I can't figure out, how to actually make that happen.
> Based on the manual, this parameter belongs to TextSpanner, which
> lives in Voice, so

It certainly _does_ belond to TextSpanner.  But dynamics aren't 
TextSpanners -- see the very bottom of 6.5.3.  "Vertical positioning of 
these symbols is handled by **SPOILER DELETED**"

See the documentation to find out the deleted information.  :)

> looks like it ought to do the trick (and more--the enormous padding is
> there so I could make sure any effect would be obvious). It doesn't.

Whenever I think I've found a bug, I test it out on a small example:
{
  c'4^"foo" c' c' c'
  \override TextScript #'staff-padding = #10
  c'4^"foo" c' c' c'
}
(I changed TextScript to TextSpanner because I couldn't remember 
offhand what the syntax is for spanners).  This works as expected.

> Likewise, I'm trying to change the font weight for dynamics from bold
> to medium. This belongs to DynamicText, which also lives in Voice, and
>   \Voice
>   \override DynamicText #'font-size = #-2
>
> does work to shrink it, so I'm in the right ballpark. But
>   \override DynamicText #'font-series = #'medium
> does nothing.
>
> What am I missing?

You're missing an update to the docs that got submitted just after 
2.8.0 was released.  :)

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Some situations (such as dynamic marks) have preset font-related
properties.  If you are creating text in such situations, it
is advisable to cancel those properties with
@code{normal-text}.  See @ref{Overview of text markup commands}
for more details.
----

This was added to the manual to 8.1.3, and I've just added it to 8.1.8 
as well.

Cheers,
- Graham