Re: Ossias/footnotes

[Gilles THIBAULT]

> I would like the ossia staff to be above the main staff, if possible.

The line : alignAboveContext = #"main" in the \with section, means that you 
have to call your main staff  "main", if you want that the command has an 
effect.
That seems to work :

%%%%%%
\new Staff = "main"  \relative {
<<
 {  \grace \times 2/3 { d32[ ees f]}   ees8-3( d-2) d4-1 r8 bes'16-4 aes
    g f-1 ees-3 d-2 }
   \new Staff \with {
        \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
        \remove "Bar_engraver"
        alignAboveContext = #"main"
        fontSize = #-3
        \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3)
        \override StaffSymbol #'thickness = #(magstep -3)
        firstClef = ##f  }

        {    e8[( \prall d]) \stopStaff }
> >
}
%% %%%%%


> I would have used a footnote for this

There is a request for that :
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=737&q=footnotes