Re: Access (order) overlapping markups in a system

[Urs Liska]

Am 12.09.2016 um 17:04 schrieb David Nalesnik:
> Hi Urs,
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In this sample:
>>
>> \version "2.19.48"
>>
>> {
>>   c2 ^\markup "First markup"
>>   c2 ^\markup "Second markup"
>>   c2 ^\markup "Third markup"
>> }
>>
>> The markups are starting at the staff and when overlapping are printed
>> above the preceding one.
>>
>> Is there a way to have this behaviour reversed so that  they are
>> starting at the top and go to the bottom?
>>
>> I know how to achive the attached result with overriding
>> outside-staff-priority, but is there an automatic way that works line by
>> line? Or something that can be built with reasonable effort?
>>
> Try the following:
>
> \version "2.19"
>
> {
>   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup.outside-staff-placement-directive
> = #'right-to-left-greedy
>   c2 ^\markup "First markup"
>   c2 ^\markup "Second markup"
>   c2 ^\markup "Third markup"
> }
>
> Best,
> David

Thanks a lot, that seems exactly what I was looking for.

Do you know if that has any unwanted side effects? I mean, this isn't
limited to TextScript, isn't it?

Urs