Re: Problems with segnos and codas

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Rowe" <address@hidden>
To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:32 PM
Subject: Problems with segnos and codas


> I have a coda immediately following a D.S., and have tried to mark it
> up as follows:
>  <fis a c>
>    \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = 
> #begin-of-line-invisible
>    \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT
>    \mark \markup {"D.S " \musicglyph #"scripts.segno"}
>  |
>    \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = 
> #begin-of-line-invisible
>    \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
>    \mark \markup {\musicglyph #"scripts.coda" "Coda "} |
>  g2 r2 |
> (To be honest, they're just magic incantations I god from snippets,
> and I have no real understanding of what they're doing).
>
> That has two problems. The most significant is that it doesn't work at
> all -- I get a warning that there are two simultaneous mark events,
> and it junks the second, so I don't get the coda mark.
>
> The one that you can't tell from the little bit that I've included
> there is that the starting g of the coda should be tied over from the
> "to coda" bar, so it should have a tie going into it.
>
> Where am I going wrong? Is there an easy way to fix these problems?
>
> --
> Tim Rowe

You're trying to put 2 rehearsal marks on the same bar line.  Does something 
like:

 { r4 r r <fis a c>
   \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER
   \mark \markup {"D.S " \musicglyph #"scripts.segno" "   " \musicglyph 
#"scripts.coda" "Coda "}
 |
 g2 r2 |
}

do what you want?

--
Phil Holmes