Re: Controlling the order of articulations and text markup

[Toine Schreurs]

> Well, I am getting an unexpected order in this case:
>  \version "2.18.0"
>   { 
>  a'4
>  -\tweak script-priority 0 ^\markup\tiny\sharp 
>  -\tweak script-priority -5 ^\turn 
>  -\tweak script-priority -10 ^\markup\tiny\flat  a'4
>   }
> 
> with the priority getting lower for each symbol I expect the sharp to be
> above the turn and the flat below. Instead the turn is the highest.
> Any ideas?

^\turn is a Script object
^\markup\tiny\sharp is TextScript

TextScript uses outside-staff-priority, Script does not.

According to the docs (v2.19) 4.4.1:
First, LilyPond places all the within-staff objects. Then it sorts the
outside-staff objects according to their outside-staff-priority. The
outside-staff objects are taken one by one, beginning with the object
with the lowest outside-staff-priority, and placed so that they do not
collide with any objects that have already been placed. That is, if
two outside-staff grobs are competing for the same space, the one with
the lower outside-staff-priority will be placed closer to the
staff. If two objects have the same outside-staff-priority the one
encountered first will be placed closer to the staff.

You can remove the outside-staff-priority for TextScript:

 \version "2.18.0"
  {
 \once \override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = ##f
 a'4
 -\tweak script-priority 0 ^\markup\tiny\sharp
 -\tweak script-priority -5 ^\turn
 -\tweak script-priority -10 ^\markup\tiny\flat  a'4
  }

>From the internal documentation, I get the impression that script-priority
specifies a number, which will be added to 'something else'.

Toine Schreurs