LilyPond Beginnershandleiding

Hoofdstuk 4: Tweaking output 123
staff-position is set to -4 for MultiMeasureRest, so we need to move it, say, four half-staff
spaces down to -8.
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This is better than using, for example, extra-offset, because the ledger line above the rest
is inserted automatically.
The extra-offset property
The extra-offset property provides complete control over the positioning of an object both
horizontally and vertically.
In the following example, the second fingering is moved a little to the left, and 1.8 staff space
downwards:
\stemUp
f4-5
\once \override Fingering.extra-offset = #'(-0.3 . -1.8)
f4-5
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The positions property
The positions property allows the vertical position and hence the slope of tuplets, slurs, phrasing
slurs and beams to be controlled manually.
Here’s an example in which the phrasing slur and slur collide:
a8 \( ( a'16 ) a \)
One possibility would be to move the two ends of the phrasing slur higher. We can try setting
the left end to 2.5 staff-spaces above the centre line and the right end to 4.5 above, and LilyPond
will select the phrasing slur from the candidates it has found with its end points closest to these:
\once \override PhrasingSlur.positions = #'(2.5 . 4.5)
a8 \( ( a'16 ) a \)