⌂ Shifting dynamic marks above the staff and to the left of notes

In vocal music, dynamic markings are often placed above, rather than below, the notes, so both the dynamics and the lyrics are close to the staff. In SATB pieces, vertical space can be scarce, and one way to recover some is to move the dynamics so they appear to the left of the notes. In recent development versions of LilyPond, they will then fall down to the staff in many cases. In current stable versions, they need to be manually shifted down.