Re: Positioning volta bracket

[Nick Payne]

On 21/05/13 21:26, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> > > Is there a way to position (or to adjust the position of) the volta
> > > brackets manually?  With the following example:
> > >
> > > \relative c'' {
> > >   \repeat volta 3 { d4 d d d }
> > >   \alternative { { c4 d e f } { e4 f g a } }
> > > }
> > >
> > > the volta brackets are raised, because of the final "a" note, but it
> > > could have fit under the volta bracket at the "normal" position,
> > > since it does not clash with the "3." indication.
> > >
> > > I tried
> > >
> > > \layout { \context { \Staff \override VoltaBracketSpanner #'Y-offset
> > > = #N } }
> > >
> > > with various values for N, without success.
> >
> > Using what version of LilyPond?  With 2.17.12 I see something like the
> > following (which looks reasonable):
>
> Still 2.14.2...
>
> > With 2.16, this looks less pretty.
>
> But I see that 2.16.2 would not help...
>
> By the way, the question was: how is it possible to adjust the position
> by hand (independently of the default position)?

You can use extra-offset. eg:

\once \override Score.VoltaBracket #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -1.5)

will lower the following bracket by 1.5 staff units.