Controlling Slur Marks

[Greg Lindstrom]

I am finishing up engraving my first full score. It's a piece for brass band where we could not find a score anywhere and the one we've ordered has been backordered for 6 months! I took it upon myself to pull all the parts and engrave away. Eventually, I will hook up a midi keyboard to enter stuff like this, but I'm as quick, if not quicker, typing it in and controlling just about everything the first time through.

Lilypond is an impressive system and I use it over the 2 "big" commercial engraving packages because I think the final product just looks better.

But, to my question...

I have a very short Ossia that I would like to add to a chart I'm engraving. I'd rather not break it out onto its own staff (just to save space in the score) so I'm adding it as a CueVoice. The problem is the slur marks on the main line are above and the slurs on the ossia are below (see snippet). Is there a way to control where the slur marks appear, in the same spirit as stems up and down? Is it preferred to break the ossia out in its own staff:?

Thanks!

--greg

And the code to generate it

  <<{f16(e f g\!) a(f c a)|
     \stemDown{g16(a bf g)\> c(bf a g\!}|
    }
    {
      \new CueVoice{
        \stemUp s16 s8^\markup\small{ossia} s16 a'16(g f e)|
                g16(f e d) s4|
      }
    }
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