Re: Align markup above staff

[Aaron Hill]

On 2023-02-10 7:12 am, Michael Werner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 9:49 AM Johannes Roeßler <joei@joei.de> wrote:
>
> > thx to both Michaels :)
> >
> > looks like an idea, but when I compile your source, I get a little 
> > drift
> > between
> > "diminuendo" and "poco"
> >
> > Best regards
> > Johannes
>
> Huh. I hadn't noticed that when I was testing it here. But  now I go 
> look
> more closely I'm seeing it too. Looks like it's aligning poco by way of 
> the
> bottom of the downward stem of the p, which then shifts everything 
> after
> upwards by the same amount. But if I go through and change both 
> instances
> of poco to Poco the a between is still shifted upwards. Puzzling.

DynamicText and TextScript do behave differently w.r.t. vertical 
alignment.

%%%%
\version "2.22.0"

#(set-global-staff-size 72)
\paper { tagline = ##f }

<<  \new RhythmicStaff
    \with { \omit TimeSignature }
    { \cadenzaOn s1*6 }
    \new Dynamics \with {
      % Negative padding to permit overlap so we can use
      % the staff line as a vertical reference point.
      \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing =
      #'((basic-distance . 0) (minimum-distance . 0)
        (padding . -10) (stretchability . 0))

      \override DynamicText.color = #green
      \override TextScript.color = #red
    }
    {
      % TextScripts
      s1-\markup "q"
      s1-\markup "x"
      s1-\markup "b"

      % DynamicTexts
      s1-#(make-dynamic-script #{
            \markup { \normal-text \italic "q" } #})
      s1-#(make-dynamic-script #{
            \markup { \normal-text \italic "x" } #})
      s1-#(make-dynamic-script #{
            \markup { \normal-text \italic "b" } #})
    } >>
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill

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