I suspect you could get it to work by messing with outside-staff-priority instead of removing the engraver, but I can't test that right away since this computer doesn't have lilypond.
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Sam Whited <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently asked this question over on Music.SE [1], but as they don't > have a huge LilyPond user base I thought I'd ask here as well (see the > question there for rendered examples). > > I'm working on a score (in LilyPond 9.17.97) that contains some volta > repeats with alternate endings. It also has chords printed above the > staff. By default, the chords are printed below the alternate ending > brackets, which I think looks bad, so I've moved the chords above the > alternate endings by removing the `Volta_engraver' from the score context: > > > \layout { > > \context { > > \Score > > \remove "Volta_engraver" > > } > > } > > and adding it to the staff that contains the alternate endings: > > > \new Staff = "melody" \with { > > \consists "Volta_engraver" > > }{ > > ... > > } > > This works alright, but now the chords that aren't above the alternate > ending marks end up way above the staff with tons of whitespace below > them, which looks equally bad. > > I've been digging through my sheet music collection, but haven't found > anything with both alternate endings and chord names to look at; what's > the usual way of engraving this? Would one simply move the chords that > aren't above an alternate ending down closer to the staff? It seems like > this would make the chords hard to read (since they'd be at different > levels). If this is how it's normally done, how can I achieve that > effect in LP? > > Thanks, > Sam > > > [1]: > > http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14143/lilypond-vertical-spacing-alternate-endings-and-chords > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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