Re: How to align text and dynamixs

[Simon Albrecht]

On 02.02.2016 08:43, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote:
> Thank you! (Stupid brain seizing to work in the night, of course it is 
> articulations...)
>
> It did the trick but i only understand half of what's going on in what you 
> wrote. In the interest of learning, would you mind to decipher or give a 
> pointer where to read?

See some comments below. Other then that, I can recommend scouring the 
NR command index: 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index> 
(which is NR section D), or the full index (section E).

> > 2. feb. 2016 kl. 00.42 skrev Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
> >
> > 2016-02-02 0:08 GMT+01:00 Carl-Henrik Buschmann <address@hidden>:
> > > I wonder how to align text and dynamics? I need it to explain a certain
> > > action when using a certain symbol. I guess this question could be answered
> > > several ways: 1) is it possible to write dynamic/other symbols in markup? 2)
> > > How to gently force horizontal alignment between a dynamic/other mark and
> > > \markup?
> > >
> > >
> > > MWE
> > >
> > > \version "2.19.35"
> > >
> > > {
> > >   c'->_\markup { \tiny \italic (stomp) }
> > > }
> > >
> > > {
> > >   c'_\markup { > \tiny \italic (stomp) }
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > Carl
> >
> > Hi Carl,
> >
> > your examples doesn't show any dynamic but articulations, i.e. accents.
> >
> > Maybe you'll find the below helpful though:
> >
> > %%1 DynamicText
> > stompMrkp =
> > \markup {
> >   \musicglyph #"scripts.sforzato" \normal-text \vcenter \tiny \italic (stomp)
> > }

This defines a markup, specifying the appearance of the desired object.

> > stompSfz = #(make-dynamic-script stompMrkp)

This takes the markup, turns it into a dynamic script and stores the 
result in a variable, to be used in music as follows:

> > {
> >   c'-\tweak self-alignment-X #LEFT -\tweak parent-alignment-X #LEFT _\stompSfz
> > }
> >
> > %%2 markup
> > {
> >   c'_\markup \concat {
> >         \null
> >         \musicglyph #"scripts.sforzato"
> >         \hspace #0.6
> >         \vcenter \tiny \italic (stomp)
> >   }
> > }

This uses slightly different markup formatting, and creates a TextScript 
grob instead of a DynamicText grob. This will behave differently, e.g. 
with the first approach \stompSfz will terminate an eventual (de)crescendo.

HTH, Simon