Re: Workarounds for issue 1127?

[Keith OHara]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:34:12 -0800, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I leave out the Dynamics context, indicating dynamics on notes or
> > spacer rests in a temporary parallel sequence
> > { c1\p << d2 {s4.\< s8\> <>\!} >> e2 }

> > \override PianoStaff.DynamicLineSpanner #'staff-padding = #2.5

> I used to do this (many versions ago), but found that the dynamics never centered 
> exactly (i.e., didn’t line up "when they were supposed to”), and the extra 
> space never compressed effectively

Right. This just attaches dynamics to one staff or the other.  I just find the 
result less-bad than having all dynamics on one horizontal line.

The right- and left- staves within a PianoStaff don't stretch from each other 
very much to help fill the page, so setting their 'staff-padding' to each staff 
at about half the gap, puts the dynamics nearly in the center, most of the 
time, unless notes pry the staves apart.

I guess you can put a Dynamics between the staves anyway, and use it for the 
occasional dynamic that really should be centered between staves.