Re: Controlling the order of articulations and text markup

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 21:56 +0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Richard, you wrote Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:50 PM
> 
> > 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?
> 
> It will behave as you expect if you use outside-staff-priority rather
> than script-priority.  script-priority applies only to Script objects,
> and only the \turn is a Script object.  outside-staff-priority applies
> to both (although it isn't set by default for Script objects).

ah, thanks, I think I have this working now.

Richard


> 
> script-priority is mainly of use if you have two Script objects occurring
> at the same musical moment in several places in the score, and you 
> want set their relative position just once in a \layout block.
> 
> Trevor