Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
James- This was the example I tried to use and it didn't work It may be wrong but here's what I ended up with that did work << { c8 f4 e b8 c8 g'4 f c8 d a'4 g d8 e b'4 c4.} \new Staff = "melody" \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" \remove "Clef_engraver" alignAboveContext = #"melody" fontSi

Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread James Bailey
I don't know which you used as your source, but the easiest to understand how this works is the section on nesting music expressions in the Learning Manual: \new Staff = "main" { \relative g' { r4 g8 g c4 c8 d | e4 r8 << { f8 c c } \new Staff \with { alignAbov

Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:01:54AM -0700, Jay Hamilton wrote: >Thank you that worked it's not exactly that way in the example of the >docs- >Should that be changed? I haven't followed the discussion at all, but if you have a suggestion, please see: http://lilypond.org/website/help-us.h

Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
Thank you that worked it's not exactly that way in the example of the docs- Should that be changed? Jay On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:10 AM, James Bailey wrote: > > On 30.05.2010, at 22:55, Jay Hamilton wrote: > > Hello all what am I doing wrong here? > The 'ossia is below the staff and I would expe

Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread James Bailey
On 30.05.2010, at 22:55, Jay Hamilton wrote: Hello all what am I doing wrong here? The 'ossia is below the staff and I would expect it to be above, Thanks Jay \version "2.12.2" \header { title = "different 3/4s" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = \markup { \tiny \override #'(baseline-skip .

Re: alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread James Bailey
On 30.05.2010, at 22:55, Jay Hamilton wrote: Hello all what am I doing wrong here? The 'ossia is below the staff and I would expect it to be above, Thanks Jay \version "2.12.2" \header { title = "different 3/4s" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = \markup { \tiny \override #'(baseline-skip .

alignAboveContext - don't know what I don't understand

2010-05-31 Thread Jay Hamilton
Hello all what am I doing wrong here? The 'ossia is below the staff and I would expect it to be above, Thanks Jay \version "2.12.2" \header { title = "different 3/4s" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = \markup { \tiny \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \center-column { "CC lic 2.5 some rights re