Re: Text aligned on dynamic

[Nick Payne]

 I don't recall the original discussion, but why can't you define, for 
example

mpdolce = \markup { \dynamic mp { \italic\bold dolce } }

and then in your score use

a_\mpdolce

Nick
On 09/10/10 20:37, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> Hi Valentin,
> Dear LilyPond users,
>
> I'm sorry I'm reviving some few-week-old topics that interested me but
> I was not able to take effectively part of the discussion when it was
> intensely occuring.
>
> This message ensue from Valentin's "Absolute dynamics as postfix text"
> patch and following discussion.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-09/msg00148.html
>
> Of course, I'm really happy to see proposals for custom dynamic
> indications (i.e. mix of dynamic and text, like "mp dolce") as
> _postfix_ command.  There is currently no easy way to handle such quite
> frequent situations ("p subito", "ff appassionato", "p espr.", ...).
> I was really frustrated by this fact, I complained (as usually) about
> it and I have been given a solution, thanks to Valentin and Graham's
> "make-dynamic-extra" function.
> That said, I appreciate to see people trying to set up a more
> convenient (and user-friendly) way to do that.
>
> Valentin's proposal is fine, as far as I can understand it.
> However I would have thought at another proposal :
> why not make it possible to align normal markups (i.e. TextScript) on
> dynamic, using some kind of property?
> Something like
>
>    \override TextScript #'align-on-dynamic = ##t
>
> If ##t markups would align on dynamic if present, if false the behavior
> would stay like it is now (positioned separately).
> That would also make us avoid creating a lot of "custom dynamics", but
> instead use "simple markups" (+ override a property).
>
> I spoke about this idea in a message on lilypond-user some months ago.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-04/msg00435.html
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier