Re: outside-staff-priority with slur and hairpin

[Trevor Daniels]

Jonathan Wilkes wrote Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:38 AM
>     I did a quick exercise typsetting a Schumann score, and I'm 
> puzzled
> because to get the hairpin under the slur I had to turn up
> 'outside-staff-priority for the slur to be greater than 250. 
> Otherwise,
> the snippet below doesn't work correctly.
>     Reading the NR, it sounds like Lilypond just sorts in 
> increasing
> order for outside-staff objects.  Why can't I just set
> 'outside-staff-priority for the Hairpin to #1?

Have you not read the Learning Manual?  The
Notation Reference assumes you have.  This is
explained in considerable detail in section 4.4.3.

> I also tried using 'avoid-slur (and turning off 
> outside-staff-priority
> for the hairpin) but to no avail.

This too is explained there.

Trevor