Re: Odd layout choices

[Simon Albrecht]

(continuing the thread on ly-user)

Hello Guy,

 no, there isn't, because it tends to contradict the logic: they won't appear to be simultaneous, if they are placed one after another.
You might try the methods described in <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-objects>. For the dynamics, this can be complicated, but try:
\override DynamicText.X-offset or
\override DynamicLineSpanner.outside-staff-priority = ##f (to be placed in \layout) and
\override DynamicText.Y-offset and similar.

HTH, Simon

Am 16-Sep-2014 06:31:50 +0200 schrieb address@hidden:

No longer baffling :-) Using the min-systems-per-page option forced LP to put the systems on the same page and it is clear, when it does so, why its default fitting algorithm does not! It appears to be the non-musical elements that are interfering with things. I still had to play with margins, etc. to get it to look "right." Thanks for your help. Is there an easy way to tell Lilypond not to stack vertically simultaneous directives like "a tempo" and dynamics, but to render them horizontally?