Re: Aligning "sempre pp" with "p"...

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> For the record, why can't #:right-align be made to work inside the 
> dynamic markup without sidestepping the collision mechanism?
Actually, it turns out that you can. The horizontal placement of a 
textual dynamic
indication is determined by the X-offset property, which by default is 
set to the
function ly:self-alignment-interface::x-aligned-on-self, which looks at 
the full
markup, determines its full width and then finds its center to get the 
alignment
point. In other words, it doesn't bother about any alignment points 
defined internally
in the markup. If you unset the X-offset property, on the other hand, 
then the existing
alignment point of the markup is used instead. So, the following example 
works
as you request:

sempp = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:line(#:right-align #:normal-text 
#:italic "sempre"
#:dynamic "pp")))
\relative c'{
\override DynamicText #'X-offset = #0  % Setting to ##f (false) gives 
the same result
c \sempp d e d \sempp
}
\layout{ragged-right = ##t }

The problem is that with this setting, all the normal dynamics will be 
left aligned instead
of centered below the note, so you're back at a situation where you want 
to tweak
some extra property only for a specific dynamics (unless you redefine 
all standard
dynamics to get a center aligned reference point).

   /Mats