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3.1.158 VerticalAlignment

A top-level auxiliary grob to stack groups (staves, lyrics lines, etc.). See also StaffGrouper and VerticalAxisGroup.

VerticalAlignment objects are created by the following engraver(s): Vertical_align_engraver.

Standard settings:

axes (list):

'(1)

List of axis numbers. In the case of alignment grobs, this should contain only one number.

stacking-dir (direction):

-1

Stack objects in which direction?

vertical-skylines (pair of skylines):

ly:axis-group-interface::combine-skylines

Two skylines, one above and one below this grob.

X-extent (pair of numbers):

ly:axis-group-interface::width

Extent (size) in the X direction, measured in staff-space units, relative to object’s reference point.

Y-extent (pair of numbers):

#<unpure-pure-container #<procedure ly:axis-group-interface::height (_)> #<procedure ly:axis-group-interface::pure-height (_ _ _)> >

Extent (size) in the Y direction, measured in staff-space units, relative to object’s reference point.

This object supports the following interface(s): align-interface, axis-group-interface, grob-interface and spanner-interface.

This object is of class Spanner (characterized by spanner-interface).