LilyPond Snippets

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Vertically aligned dynamics and textscripts
By setting the 'Y-extent property to a suitable value, all DynamicLineSpanner objects (hairpins
and dynamic texts) can be aligned to a common reference point, regardless of their actual extent.
This way, every element will be vertically aligned, thus producing a more pleasing output.
The same idea is used to align the text scripts along their baseline.
music = \relative c'' {
c2\p^\markup { gorgeous } c\f^\markup { fantastic }
c4\p c\f\> c c\!\p
}
{
}
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\music \break
\override DynamicLineSpanner #'staff-padding = #2.0
\override DynamicLineSpanner #'Y-extent = #'(-1.5 . 1.5)
\override TextScript #'Y-extent = #'(-1.5 . 1.5)
\music
gorgeous
p
gorgeous
p
fantastic
f
fantastic
Vertically aligning ossias and lyrics
f
This snippet demonstrates the use of the context properties alignBelowContext and
alignAboveContext to control the positioning of lyrics and ossias.
\paper {
ragged-right = ##t
}
\relative c'