Re: raise in markup glitch (was: Re: Pre-Release: Slave Songs of the United States)

[Mats Bengtsson]

Sorry to be picky, but I still haven't seen the most standard of all
standard methods mentioned in this thread:
\once \override TextScript #'padding = #1.5 c''^\markup{...}

  /Mats

Quoting Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:

> Hi Mats,
>
> > Why not use the method described in the manual? See section "Moving  
> > objects".
>
> I assumed (oops?!) that Marcus had thought of that, and was looking  
> for other methods.
>
> Of course, for the sake of completeness (in the list archive), I  
> should have included the "standard" method(s) -- see updated example  
> attached below.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out!
> Kieren.
> _________________
>
> \version "2.11.23"
>
> theMusic =
> {
>         c''1^\markup { \italic "Variation second." } \break
>
> 	\once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 1) c''^\markup  { 
> \italic "Variation second." }
> 	c''-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 1) ^\markup { \italic "Variation  
> second." } \break
>
> 	\once \override TextScript #'staff-padding = #1.5 c''^\markup  { 
> \italic "Variation second." }
> 	c''-\tweak #'staff-padding #1.5 ^\markup { \italic "Variation  
> second." } \break
>
> 	c''2^\markup { \translate #(cons 0 1) { \hspace #0 \italic  
> "Variation second." } }
>         c''^\markup { \raise #1 { \hspace #0 \italic "Variation second." } }  
> \break
> }
>
> \score
> {
>         \theMusic
> }