Re: Top-aligned and bottom-aligned markup with TextScript staff-padding

[Trevor Bača]

On 9/4/06, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Trevor:
>
> > Anyone have something handy to make the markup in this example
> > *bottom-align* (instead of top-aligning)?
>
> "NORM has ascenders, but "norm" doesn't.
> Therefore, you need to add an invisible ascender letter (e.g.,
> capital) to force it to have the same vertical extent as the other one.
>
> %%% BEGIN TOP-ALIGNED MARKUP SNIPPET %%%
> \version "2.9.15"
> \paper { ragged-right = ##t }
> \new Staff {
>    \time 2/4
>    \override TextScript #'staff-padding = #4
>    c'1_\markup { "NORM" }
>    c'1_\markup { "norm" \transparent "T" }
> }
> %%% END TOP-ALIGNED MARKUP SNIPPET %%%

Hi Kieren,

Thanks, as usual! The transparent text does indeed have the effect of
bottom-aligning the different pieces of markup. I pared my original
example down and hid the fact that markup in question also
center-align in the horizontal direction.

The transparency trick still works even with center-aligned stuff, so
long as there's a transparent fake both before and after the actual
text.  Here's an example for anyone else who happens upon the thread
later.

Thanks again.


%%% BEGIN BOTTOM- AND CENTER-ALIGNED MARKUP SNIPPET %%%

\version "2.9.16"

\new Staff {
  \override TextScript #'staff-padding = #4
  \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #center
  \time 2/4
  c'4_\markup { \transparent "A" "AAAA" \transparent "A" }
  c'4_\markup { \transparent "A" "aaaa" \transparent "A" }
}

\layout {
  ragged-right = ##t
}

%%% END BOTTOM- AND CENTER-ALIGNED MARKUP SNIPPET  %%%


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Trevor Bača
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