Re: Vertically aligning markups with one another

[Oscar Dub]

Hi David,

Thanks for answering, that's exactly the override I wanted.

All the best!

O.

On 25 Apr 2013, at 11:47, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Oscar Dub <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I've come to a problem I don't know how to fix involving the way that
>> markups are aligned to one another. I think there might be some scheme
>> hacking involved in getting the result I need, although potentially
>> there might be an override which I've overlooked that would do the
>> same thing: either way I'd be really grateful if anyone can help me.
>> 
>> The attached example examples I made show the problem: I'd like to be
>> able to have the markups containing the filler text "one two three"
>> and "four five six" typeset on the same baselines.
>> 
>> Is this possible?
>> 
>> As a further technical constraint, I'd like to keep using markups
>> rather than lyrics if the result can be achieved this way.
> 
> The markups are independently positioned, so you might be out of luck.
> You can push them out of the middle using something like
> 
>   \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'Y-extent = #'(-2 . 2)
> 
> at the start, but that won't give them a common alignment.  What's wrong
> with using a lyrics context?  You can give the lyrics context its own
> timing/durations so that it does not need to be syllable-synchronized to
> the music.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
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