- // Dot formatting requests the Y-offset, -which- for rests may
- // trigger post-linebreak callbacks.
- if (!Rest::has_interface (head))
- d->set_property ("X-offset", Grob::x_parent_positioning_proc);
+ // Dot formatting requests the Y-offset, which for rests may
+ // trigger post-linebreak callbacks. On the other hand, we need the
+ // correct X-offset of the dots for horizontal collision avoidance.
+ // The translation here is undone in calc_positioning_done, where we
+ // do the X-offset properly.
+ if (Rest::has_interface (head))
+ d->translate_axis (head->extent (head, X_AXIS).length (), X_AXIS);
+ else
+ d->set_property ("X-offset", Grob::x_parent_positioning_proc);