Re: Accidentals centred above notes

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 20:11 +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> 2014-08-10 10:25 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann <address@hidden>:
> > I hadn't realized that I had stumbled into an area of live development -
> > thanks for making me aware of what is going on. Reflecting on things, I
> > thought I should anyway develop a general-purpose interface for people
> > to place an ornament with an accidental above/and or below all nicely
> > centered. I got as far as the following example, which may simply
> > reflect an inadequate understanding of the docs, or may be of interest
> > to those working on the alignment of markup and notes:
> >
> > \version "2.18.0"
> >
> > {
> >    a''  ^\markup {\center-column {\tiny \sharp \musicglyph #"scripts.turn" 
> > \tiny \flat}}
> >    a''  -\tweak baseline-skip #2  ^\markup {\center-column {\tiny \sharp 
> > \musicglyph #"scripts.turn" \tiny \flat}}
> >    a''  -\tweak baseline-skip #0  ^\markup {\center-column {\tiny \sharp 
> > \musicglyph #"scripts.turn" \tiny \flat}}
> >
> > }
> >
> > I imagined the tweak would take control of the line spacing in the
> > markup
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > (and from the lowest line to the note),
> 
> Why should it work so?  baseline-skip is a markup property and it
> works inside the markup.
> For changing distance between TextScript and the notes, try changing
> TextScript's padding property.
> 
> > which the first two lines
> > seem to confirm; varying the value passed to baseline skip as in the
> > third line does not seem to do anything useful.
> 
> But it does: in the last example the sharp is closer to the turn than
> in the second one.  It's just that setting baseline-skip below some
> value has no effect because LilyPond will not allow collisions between
> objects.
> 
> hth,

Yes, thanks, that certainly helped ... I have got something I can work
with now.

Richard