Ah, perfect thank you very much!

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:28 AM, David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Steve Lacy <sl...@slacy.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm engraving some simple music for beginning violin students who are
>> learning to read music.
>>
>> I would prefer if the text added to notes were vertically aligned on each
>> line, but by default they are quite jagged:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>> (http://lilybin.com/to3r9r/3)
>>
>> I had thought about using \lyricsmode for this purpose, but it seems like
>> the wrong solution to this problem.  I would prefer to be able to specify a
>> fixed-veritcal offset from the top of the staff (or top of skyline?) for
>> all special \markup.  Kind of like:
>>
>>
> Try adding this line:
>
> \override TextScript #'padding = #2
>
> (The markups will align themselves vertically if you select a value of
> padding that is large enough.)
>
> --David
>
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