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.
-- Knute Snortum On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:10 AM Richard Shann <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > 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 > > > > >
