Re: 2.23.4 text above fermata

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Paul,

While Script has the outside-staff-interface, it does not actually set a value 
for outside-staff-priority. Thus no matter what priority you give to your 
TextScript, the TextScript will always be placed closer. (Note that scripts do 
not always behave like outside-staff objects).

To achieve what you want means you’ll need to assign an outside-staff-priority 
to the fermata, for example by doing 
r8-\tweak outside-staff-priority #400 -\fermata
(TextScript has a priority of 450).

But it seems to me that you intend to have a text specify a long fermata. In 
this case you might want to embody the text into the stencil of the fermata 
instead of trying to somehow balance a TextScript above the fermata.

See the appended file for details,
Cheers,
Valentin

Am Mittwoch, 24. November 2021, 17:28:47 CET schrieb Paul Scott:
> What do I need to know to get text over a fermata?
> 
> I was hoping to get the second text over the fermata.
> 
> {
>    r2 r4 r8
>    <>^\markup\italic{long}
>    r8\fermata
>    r2 r4 r8
>    \once \override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = #1600
>    <>^\markup\italic{long}
>    r8\fermata
> }
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Paul

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