Re: raise markup

[Malte Meyn]

Am 22.03.20 um 09:06 schrieb address@hidden:
> I've created a markup, simplified to 'X' in my example, and I would like to 
> move it up partway into the staff.  I can move it down with a negative number 
> but it won't move higher than '0' in \translate.  There must be a way to do 
> this.

Yes, there is a way: You have to set outside-staff-priority and 
staff-padding to #'(). You can then use Y-offset instead of \translate 
to fine-tune the position.

You can either use [\once] \override or \tweak, the following works both 
for LilyPond 2.18.2 and 2.20.0:

{
  \once \override Score.MultiMeasureRestText.outside-staff-priority = #'()
  \once \override Score.MultiMeasureRestText.staff-padding = #'()
  \once \override Score.MultiMeasureRestText.Y-offset = -2
  R1_"X"

  R1-\tweak staff-padding #'() -\tweak outside-staff-priority #'() 
-\tweak Y-offset -2 _"X"
}