The easiest way would be to use \voiceOne and \voiceTwo instead of \stemUp and
\stemDown (recommended anyway in most cases). Otherwise _( and ^( works too.
HTH
/Leo
> 30 aug. 2022 kl. 19:30 skrev Greg Lindstrom <gslindst...@gmail.com>:
>
>
> I am finishing up engraving my first full score. It's a piece for brass band
> where we could not find a score anywhere and the one we've ordered has been
> backordered for 6 months! I took it upon myself to pull all the parts and
> engrave away. Eventually, I will hook up a midi keyboard to enter stuff like
> this, but I'm as quick, if not quicker, typing it in and controlling just
> about everything the first time through.
>
> Lilypond is an impressive system and I use it over the 2 "big" commercial
> engraving packages because I think the final product just looks better.
>
> But, to my question...
>
> I have a very short Ossia that I would like to add to a chart I'm engraving.
> I'd rather not break it out onto its own staff (just to save space in the
> score) so I'm adding it as a CueVoice. The problem is the slur marks on the
> main line are above and the slurs on the ossia are below (see snippet). Is
> there a way to control where the slur marks appear, in the same spirit as
> stems up and down? Is it preferred to break the ossia out in its own staff:?
>
> Thanks!
> --greg
>
>
>
> And the code to generate it
>
> <<{f16(e f g\!) a(f c a)|
> \stemDown{g16(a bf g)\> c(bf a g\!}|
> }
> {
> \new CueVoice{
> \stemUp s16 s8^\markup\small{ossia} s16 a'16(g f e)|
> g16(f e d) s4|
> }
> }
> >>
