On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM Kieren MacMillan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> >> You’d like a command like \offset (say, \reposition) which tweaks the 
> >> position of a grob
> >> from its final [calculated] position, pushing other grobs (in X or Y 
> >> directions) as necessary?
>
> > \offset would do exactly that if there were a single property of
> > OttavaBracket which represents its position fully.  The bracket's
> > final position is represented by Y-offset *and* something else.
>
> So can \offset be made to work with OttavaBracket (and other grobs that are 
> positioned similarly)?
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
> ________________________________

I'm going to investigate this.

\offset requires a grob property which is assigned a default value in
define-grobs.scm (from which file the IR grob reference pages are
generated). The more items that have defaults there, the better.

David

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