Re: "Floating" markup

[James Worlton]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jim Long <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:04:13AM -0500, James Worlton wrote:
>
> This solution is also kind of hacky, but it looks like it may do more or
> less what you want. It also scales pretty well to other staff sizes. I'm
> not sure how to slide the staff names to the right, however:

This slides the instrument name to the right and slightly up:

...

      \new Staff ="staff" \with {
        \remove Time_signature_engraver

        \override InstrumentName.X-offset = #-4
        \override InstrumentName.Y-offset = #1

        instrumentName = \markup { \vspace #1.5
          \center-column { \italic "Count:"
                           \vspace #2
                           \line { \italic "Sticking:" }
          }
        }
      }

Or if you're on 2.16, the syntax is \override InstrumentName #'X-offset = #-4 etc.

Thanks for this. I should have delved more deeply into InstrumentName attributes.

James W.