Re: Overlapping Characters in markup

[Nathan Ho]

On 2016-12-23 08:07, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> [...]
>
> While \translate works, and I can manipulate the offsets via trial and
> error, I'm stumped as to the units.  I found the documentation for the
> function (lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/align) and
> it's companion \translate-scaled, but some idea as to the units (for
> either function) would be useful for coordinating this faked character
> across the project.

Hi Samuel,

Sorry, I was wrong -- you should use \translate-scaled, not \translate. 
As far as I can tell, \translate uses staff spaces. \translate-scaled 
also uses staff spaces, but multiplied by the magnification of the font 
size relative to a font size of 0. It doesn't seem that 
\translate-scaled is aware of any font metrics like em size.


Nathan