Re: Distance of a grob from its reference point

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-01-16 8:46 am, Carl Sorensen wrote:
On 1/16/20, 9:34 AM, "Robin Bannister" <r...@dabble.ch> wrote:
 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?

Unfortunately, no.  outside-staff-padding does not have a specific 
default value defined for any type of grob.  This is the main limitation 
of \offset.

Internally, Axis_group_interface::default_outside_staff_padding_ is 
0.46, but \offset has no knowledge of that value.  Instead, it will see 
the grob property as unset and will not be able to perform the desired 
arithmetic.


-- Aaron Hill