Re: Spacing lyrics and markup

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hello Phil,

I think you can't move TextScript elements beyond lyrics with 
outside-staff-priority - the lyrics don't belong to a staff but are 
probably associated to a voice within. So you probably have to move the 
markup with \translate or the TextScript with extra-offset.
If it is possible to get the vertical position of a lyrics context from 
within a staff/voice context, it should be possible to move something 
beyond that point. That would make some other things possible:

If I place a closing "(n)" on an extender line, I do it with these two 
functions:

%%% start snip
freetext = #(define-music-function (parser location dx dy text)(number? 
number? markup?)
  #{
    \once \override TextScript #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)
    \once \override TextScript #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0)
    \once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER
    s1*0_\markup { \translate #(cons $dx $dy) $text }
#})
closeN = #(define-music-function (parser location dy)(number?)
  #{
    \freetext #0 #$dy \markup { "(n)" }
#})
closeNx = #(define-music-function (parser location dx dy)(number? number?)
  #{
    \freetext #$dx #$dy \markup { "(n)" }
#})
%%% end snip
%%% example:
\relative c' { \partial 4 e4 ~ << e1 ~ \closeN #-3.7 >> | e }
\addlyrics { A __ }

So I set x- and y-extent to 0, so that lily doesn't see a collision. 
Then I move it down. I could of course move it beyond any lyrics 
assigned to this voice, but I have to trial and error to find the right 
value. It would be nice to get the vertical position of the Lyrics and 
attach/align the text to it.
This might lead (again) to a hen-and-egg-problem, where the vertical 
position of the lyrics is not known until the textscript is positioned.

Cheers,
Jan-Peter


On 15.04.2011 13:29, Phil Holmes wrote:
> Can anyone give me pointers as to how to put markup text outside Lyric 
> text? I've tried overriding the Staff.TextScript 
> outside-staff-priority, and that shifts markup outside tempo marks, 
> for instance, but does nothing wrt Lyrics.
>
> TIA.
>
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