Re: Adding text above the time signature and at the end of a part

[Mats Bengtsson]

Why not use \mark "Some text"? It should work both before the
first note and at the final bar line.

   /Mats

Roland Goretzki wrote:
> Hello list, hello James,
>
> You wrote:
>
>
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1.  How do you add text above the time signature (or somewhere close)?  I've
> > seen the a4^"This is text" syntax, but I'd like to add text before the first
> > note.  (The music I'm looking at has things like "Moderately slow", "slow
> > gospel," "not too slowly" written there.)
>
>
> Here I send You two possibilities:
>
>     1. You can do it like You explained above and putting
>        the following line before the note:
>
>        \once\override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-6.5 . 8)
>
>        (where the number left of the dot shifts horizontally and the
>        number right of the dot shifts vertically)
>
>     2. You can put a new line into the header section:
>
>        piece    =       "slow gospel"
>
>
> > 2.  How do you add text at the end of a part ("D.C. al coda")?
> > Probably the same question as #1.
>
>
> With the first possibility, yes. :)
>
> Best Regards           Roland
>
> PS:     In the hope, You are using a version >= 2.0.0, otherwise the
>         syntax could be a little bit different.
>
>
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