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3.2.6 align-interface

Order grobs from top to bottom, left to right, right to left or bottom to top. For vertical alignments of staves, the line-break-system-details of the left NonMusicalPaperColumn may be set to tune vertical spacing.

User-settable properties:

align-dir (direction)

Which side to align? -1: left side, 0: around center of width, 1: right side.

axes (list)

List of axis numbers. In the case of alignment grobs, this should contain only one number.

padding (dimension, in staff space)

Add this much extra space between objects that are next to each other.

stacking-dir (direction)

Stack objects in which direction?

Internal properties:

elements (array of grobs)

An array of grobs; the type is depending on the grob where this is set in.

minimum-translations-alist (association list (list of pairs))

An list of translations for a given start and end point.

positioning-done (boolean)

Used to signal that a positioning element did its job. This ensures that a positioning is only done once.

This grob interface is used in the following graphical object(s): BassFigureAlignment and VerticalAlignment.