Works like a charm!  Thanks!  I've got another tool in my toolbelt.

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Knute Snortum
(via Gmail)

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Morley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 2018-02-02 20:20 GMT+01:00 Knute Snortum <[email protected]>:
> > I still occasionally run into situations where I think that an X-offset
> > should work, but it doesn't.  Obviously, I'm not understanding something.
> > Can anyone tell me why the following source code doesn't move the "cresc"
> > text to the left and suggest a way to do it?
> >
> > \version "2.19.80"
> >
> > \fixed c' {
> >   c4 -\tweak X-offset -3 \cresc c c c |
> >   c4 c c c \!
> > }
>
>
> Well, you don't have a text, tweakable at it's own, but a
> _DynamicTextSpanner_ with some text.
> In close to all cases you wouldn't want a working X-offset affecting
> the _whole_ DynamicTextSpanner.
> Rather you want the left text moved (but the dashed line adjusted
> accordingly, leaving the right bound in place)
>
> Therefore we have the bound-details-property:
>
> \fixed c' {
>   \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details.left.padding = -3
>   c4 \cresc c c c |
>   c4
>   c c c \!
> }
>
> Ofcourse, you could set right.padding as well, if desired, etc
> Several line-spanners act similar.
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm
>
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