Re: "Floating" markup

[Jim Long]

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:" }
          }
        }
      }
...

It may seem odd that an X-offset of -4 means "slide it to the
right," but working in conjecture mode again, I presume that the
original value of this instance of InstrumentName.X-offset was a
negative number less than -4, so by comparison, -4 *is* to the
right of the original, calculated X-offset value.  I tried a value
of 0, and that was much too far to the right.