Re: Help with positioning coda glyph

[Tim McNamara]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Robin Bannister wrote:

> Tim McNamara wrote:
> >  The first coda glyph should be at the end of bar 28
>
> See LSR 432.    Before the \break, add
> \once \override Score.RehearsalMark                #'break- 
> visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible

Good grief.  But thank you, that did the job.

But it seems like a cumbersome workaround for a behavior that  
shouldn't happen in the first place.  IMHO this is precisely the sort  
of stuff that will prevent LilyPond from being an application for  
anything beyond a narrow specialist market of people willing to plow  
through hundreds of pages of documentation to write even simple lead  
sheets.

> >  LilyPond won't put the coda glyph at the beginning of bar 31.    
> > At least not using the code provided in the documentation.
>
> You have put the \mark command after the first note of the triplet.

Thanks, I got that figured out but sent my reply to my original post  
back to myself (because for some reason the listserv does not set the  
reply-to header to the list, odd given that we profess to want the  
discussions to be on the list so that they are archived).  I've re- 
sent the post.

> Move it to beside the preceding \bar command;     before or after  
> doesn't matter  -  just have no music in-between.
> It may be that   NR 1.2.5 Rehearsal marks    led you astray.      
> All the \mark commands follow the c1 (the first note).
> But the default time is 4/4, so this puts them at the end of the  
> measure, i.e. right beside where the _next_ barline comes.

This should perhaps be clearer in the documentation.  However, the  
performance I am seeing in LilyPond suggests that the glyph is not  
placed at the end of the bar (when the \mark follows a note within  
the bar) but at the beginning of the next bar, which becomes apparent  
when there is a line break between the bars but is hidden when the  
bars are on the same line.

Thanks!