The easiest way would be to use \voiceOne and \voiceTwo instead of \stemUp and \stemDown (recommended anyway in most cases). Otherwise _( and ^( works too.
HTH /Leo > 30 aug. 2022 kl. 19:30 skrev Greg Lindstrom <gslindst...@gmail.com>: > > > I am finishing up engraving my first full score. It's a piece for brass band > where we could not find a score anywhere and the one we've ordered has been > backordered for 6 months! I took it upon myself to pull all the parts and > engrave away. Eventually, I will hook up a midi keyboard to enter stuff like > this, but I'm as quick, if not quicker, typing it in and controlling just > about everything the first time through. > > Lilypond is an impressive system and I use it over the 2 "big" commercial > engraving packages because I think the final product just looks better. > > But, to my question... > > I have a very short Ossia that I would like to add to a chart I'm engraving. > I'd rather not break it out onto its own staff (just to save space in the > score) so I'm adding it as a CueVoice. The problem is the slur marks on the > main line are above and the slurs on the ossia are below (see snippet). Is > there a way to control where the slur marks appear, in the same spirit as > stems up and down? Is it preferred to break the ossia out in its own staff:? > > Thanks! > --greg > > > > And the code to generate it > > <<{f16(e f g\!) a(f c a)| > \stemDown{g16(a bf g)\> c(bf a g\!}| > } > { > \new CueVoice{ > \stemUp s16 s8^\markup\small{ossia} s16 a'16(g f e)| > g16(f e d) s4| > } > } > >>