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Rotating markup
All markup text can be rotated to lie at any angle by prefixing it
with the \rotate command. The command takes two arguments:
the angle of rotation in degrees counter-clockwise and the text to
be rotated. The extents of the text are not rotated: they take
their values from the extremes of the x and y coordinates of the
rotated text. In the following example the
outside-staff-priority property for text is set to #f
to disable the automatic collision avoidance, which would push some
of the text too high.
\override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = ##f g4^\markup { \rotate #30 "a G" } b^\markup { \rotate #30 "a B" } des'^\markup { \rotate #30 "a D-Flat" } fis'^\markup { \rotate #30 "an F-Sharp" }
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