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
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