Hello all,
We can temporarily change the direction of many grobs — Scripts, TextScripts,
etc. — such that the usual effect is that they flip from being (e.g.,) beneath
a context (e.g., the Staff that the Voice is a child of) to being above that
context.
I’m wondering — brainstorming mode now — if there’s an easy way to extend that
concept to contexts which ARE NOT contained by another context (as in the Voice
∈ Staff example, above), but rather are adjacent to a second context. One
obvious example is:
<<
\new Staff \someNotes
\new Lyrics \someWords
>>
If there were a small number of words that needed to be above the Staff, the
current workaround is to add a whole new context, e.g.,
<<
\new Lyrics \someWordsAbove
\new Staff \someNotes
\new Lyrics \someWordsBelow
>>
adjust staff-affinity/ies and add spacer rests as/if necessary, etc. Why
[technically] can we not say, “\once \override LyricText.alignAboveContext = …”
to move the attachment of that grob to “the other side” of the Staff context it
is normally associated with and adjacent to.
A logical extension of this feature would be in a centered context like
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff \rhMusic
\new Dynamics \dynamics
\new Staff \lhMusic
>>
allowing the “flipping” of dynamics above the upper Staff or below the lower
Staff [without resorting to two extra Dynamics contexts].
Thanks,
Kieren.
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Kieren MacMillan, composer
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