Re: Guitar palm mutes - almost done

[Malte Meyn]

Am 31.12.2017 um 17:20 schrieb Neo Anderson:
> 1. How to change the look of the extender lines (dashes)? I'd like them 
> to be more dense or compact. The following -\tweaks with various values 
> won't make a difference.
>      -\tweak bound-details.dash-fraction #0
>      -\tweak bound-details.dash-period #0

You’re almost there: omit the bound-details, i. e.

-\tweak dash-fraction #0
-\tweak dash-period #0

> 2. The following code, which sets both variables on the same "line",
>      \override TextScript.staff-padding = #6
> creates a padding for both text in a variable ("PM") and any other text 
> attached to a note ("Aaa").
> How to integrate the code into the said variable, so that the padding 
> won't affect the text attached to notes? I tried
>      \override #'(staff-padding . 6)
> but it doesn't do anything.

PM = -\tweak staff-padding #6
     _\markup  {
       \tiny \fontsize #-1 \halign #-0.5 "P.M."
     }

and then use it as d\PM instead of d_\PM