Re: aligning text with example

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Rune Zedeler <address@hidden>:

> Eric Knapp skrev:
>
> > I want the numbers 7, 7, 3, 5, 3, and 5 to be the same vertically.
>
> Lily has hugeproblems with vertical alignment - it usually takes a 
> lot of hacking.

Not at all! It usually helps to set the staff-padding property
large enough, so that no number ends up so close to a note that it's 
moved away extra. Try
\override Fingering #'staff-padding = #3.0
(the default value is 0.5)
You may also want to reduce the padding property so that a note can get 
closer to the number without moving it:
\override Fingering #'staff-padding = #0.0

  /Mats

> In your case, the easiest is probably to put the numbers into a 
> lyrics-context:
>
> <<
>   \new Staff {
>     \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
>     <c-1>8 <d'-2>8 <a-3>2 <g-4>4
>   }
>   \addlyrics{
>     \override LyricText #'font-size = #-1
>     "1" "4" "3" "5"
>   }
> >>
>
> Alternatively one has to define his own context into which the 
> scripts go. See the section "Piano centered dynamics" in the manual 
> just to see how non-trivial this is.
> If you want me to I will try and make a template where the scripts go 
> into their own context and thereby are vertically aligned.
>
> -Rune
>
>
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