Is that the same scenario? By "encountered first" is the doc referring to the parser or to the moment in musical time?
I can attempt turning off skylines, but I suspect the score will just explode. I haven't had time to construct a controlled example of the squished spacing. Seems hard to make it "tiny." On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Saul, > > > I'm actually surprised that ordering behavior isn't documented. It's so > consistent 99% of the time I just assumed it was officially defined > behavior. > > Well, <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/ > automatic-behavior> says “If two objects have the same > outside-staff-priority the one encountered first will be placed closer to > the staff.” It continues: “In the following example all the markup texts > have the same priority (since it is not explicitly set).” So far, so good. > > But then: “Note that ‘Text3’ is automatically positioned close to the > staff again, nestling under ‘Text2’.” [!!] So there is some skyline > (vertical and/or horizontal) calculation going on. Have you tried your > "problem" score with all skylines turned off (etc.), to see if it makes a > difference? That's not something you probably want to have as a global > setting, but it might give you more insight into why you’re seeing the > current behaviour. > > Hope that helps! > Kieren. > ________________________________ > > Kieren MacMillan, composer > ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info > ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info > >
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