Re: horizontal position of augmentation dots

[Knute Snortum]

When you read the documentation for an interface, check the bottom of the page for "This object supports the following interface(s):".  In this case it's the grob-interface that has the extra-offset property.

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Knute Snortum

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:10 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:

On Sun, 2020-12-06 at 16:52 +0100, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> How about:
>
> \version "2.20.0"
> A = {f2~  f8. s16 s4 }
> B = {bes,2~  
>      \tweak Dots.extra-offset #'(-.8 . 0)
>      bes,8. bes,32 a, bes,16 c d e }
>
> \score {
> \new Staff  << 
>  \new Voice   {\voiceOne \clef bass \A }
>  \new Voice   {\voiceTwo \B }
>             >> 
>        }

Thank you! I'm disconcerted that I didn't find this for myself. I got
to this page
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/dots
but it didn't seem to lead to extra-offset as a property... I suppose I
need to tweak LilyPond so rarely that I get out of practice at finding
things in the documentation (this was my first bit of polyphony for ten
years!).

Richard


>
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
> Le dim. 6 déc. 2020 à 15:32, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>
> a écrit :
> > I struck me that this score:
> >
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > \version "2.20.0"
> > A = {f2~  f8. s16 s4 }
> > B = {bes,2~  bes,8. bes,32 a, bes,16 c d e }
> >
> > \score {
> > \new Staff  << 
> >  \new Voice   {\voiceOne \clef bass \A }
> >  \new Voice  {\voiceTwo \B }
> >             >> 
> >        }
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> >
> > has the lower dotted note vertically aligned with the upper one
> > (see
> > attached pdf). I thought it might be nicer to move the lower dot
> > closer
> > to its notehead, but I couldn't find out how to do that. With a lot
> > of
> > things there are properties to tweak but this didn't seem to the
> > the
> > case for augmentation dots.
> > Perhaps someone could steer me in the right direction?
> >
> > Richard Shann
> >