Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/16/20, 9:34 AM, "Robin Bannister" <r...@dabble.ch> wrote:

    Paolo Prete wrote:
    
    > I simply wanted to understand how to offset a bracket.
    > And the conclusion is: avoid \offset + X/Y-offset and use
    > 
    > 1) extra-offset (if you don't need automatic collision-avoidance)
    > 
    > OR
    > 
    > 2) \override X/Y-offset with a ruler (if you need automatic
    > collision-avoidance)
    
    
    OR
    
    3) make outside-staff-padding 0.46 more than needed vertical shift
        e.g. 2.46
    

Could you just \offset outside-staff-padding by 2?

Carl