Re: Positioning Dynamics Contexts

[David Kastrup]

Cynthia Karl <address@hidden> writes:

> Shouldn’t the line:
>
>         \new Staff << \dynamicsAHigh \musicA \dynamicsALow >>
>
> resullt in the ordering in the score:
>
>       dynamicsAHigh
>       musicA
>       dynamicsALow
>
> instead of
>
>       musicA
>       dynamicsAHigh
>       dynamicsALow
> ?

Taking a look at ly/engraver-init.ly, the only context accepting a
Dynamics context by default is a GrandStaff, so one is created on-demand
when \dynamicsAHigh is created and placed in the existing StaffGroup
below the last created context, which is the \new Staff in that line.

Now you probably want to change StaffGroup in order to let it accept
Dynamics as well.  This will still not change your arrangement though.
Unless you work with alignAboveContext and alignBelowContext settings,
you'll likely rather need something like

    << \dynamicsHigh \new Staff \musicA \dynamicsLow >>

instead.

-- 
David Kastrup