The stencil is what’s actually printed from a grob.
> 6 mars 2022 kl. 02:27 skrev Erika Pirnes <erika.pir...@hotmail.com>:
>
>
> Thank you Aaron, it seems to work! But what does stencil mean exactly?
>
> Best,
> Erika
> Lähettäjä: Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com>
> Lähetetty: lauantai 5. maaliskuuta 2022 18.35
> Vastaanottaja: Erika Pirnes <erika.pir...@hotmail.com>
> Kopio: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Aihe: Re: DynamicTextSpanner spacing
>
> On 2022-03-05 3:49 pm, Erika Pirnes wrote:
> > I would like the dotted line of the crescendo to start a bit later and
> > end a bit earlier. It is too close to "cresc.", in my opinion at
> > least. And sometimes too close to the "f" as well. (A tiny detail, for
> > sure, but it looks annoying.) Any ideas?
> > [...]
> > music = \relative c' {
> > \repeat unfold 5{c8 \p \cresc d e f g a b4 c8 \f b c2.}
> > }
>
> You will need to play around with the bound-details for the
> DynamicTextSpanner:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \relative c' {
> %% The space before the left side of the spanner.
> %% (NOTE: This includes the attached stencil.)
> %% Default is 0.75; we are adding two units of space.
> \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details.left.padding = #2.75
>
> %% Since we want the space between the stencil and
> %% line, we need to shift the stencil over a bit.
> %% Default is (-0.75 . -0.5); we move it left by the
> %% same increment we applied to the padding above.
> \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details
> .left.stencil-offset = #'(-2.75 . -0.5)
>
> %% The space after the right side of the spanner.
> %% Default is 0.75; we are adding two units of space.
> \override DynamicTextSpanner.bound-details.right.padding = #2.75
>
> %% (For debugging only...)
> %% Highlight the grob in red for better visibility.
> %% Also make the line solid to show its extents clearly.
> \override DynamicTextSpanner.color = #red
> \override DynamicTextSpanner.dash-fraction = #1
>
> \repeat unfold 5{ c8 \p \cresc d e f g a b4 c8 \f b c2. }
> }
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill
