Afternoon. I have been tidying up my lilypond source files and decided to try to be clever and define an 'ossia' context in one of my layout template files. I started to regret the decision when I realised I had to list every single engraver I would need to use (I thought that \alias Staff would do that - but was wrong.)
What I have done seems to work except for two things. 1) I can't get the slurs to display. 2) The layout engine does not allocate any vertical space to the Ossia and allows beams from the staff above and below to collide. I included the Vertically_spaced_contexts_engraver and Vertical_align_engraver in a fit of guess-work, but it didn't solve the problem. Is there a simple solution,other than manually tweaking the system positions? Regards - Dave P. Example below: \version "2.11.41" \include "English.ly" \layout { % Define a context for ossia sections \context { \name Ossia \alias Staff \consists Note_heads_engraver \consists Text_engraver \consists Stem_engraver \consists Accidental_engraver \consists Staff_symbol_engraver \consists Rest_engraver \consists Slur_engraver \consists Spacing_engraver \consists Bar_engraver \consists Script_engraver \consists Font_size_engraver \consists Auto_beam_engraver \consists Key_engraver \consists Vertical_align_engraver \consists Vertically_spaced_contexts_engraver \type "Engraver_group" fontSize = #-2 \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -2) \override KeySignature #'stencil = ##f } \context { \Score \accepts "Ossia" } } Notes = \relative c'' { % snip % Bar 13 cs8. d16 e8 cs a4 e8 a | d,8. e16 fs8 a d4 cs8 d | e4 e, e'8. cs16 b8 cs | << { a4 a8. b16 a4 s } \new Ossia \with { alignAboveContext = "Main" } \relative c'' { \key a \major a8^\markup \tiny \bold "Last Time" b16 ( cs ) d e fs gs ( a-. ) r r8 s4 \bar "|." } >> } \score { \new Staff = "Main" { \clef treble \key a \major \time 4/4 \Notes } \layout { } } __________________________________________________ Up to 33% off Norton Security from Tiscali - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/securepc/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user