Re: Naming lines of music

[Giles Boardman]

Hello Kieren/Xavier,

I wasn't going to be picky per Kieren's ** but ........... 

........... using Xavier's code (override Score.RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X = #LEFT) I have a whole page of music and the tunes are in different keys, so aligning to the Key signature is giving me an unsightly wiggly vertical look. Can I align to the clef or the Time signature? Or is there a line title, like the variables for "Composer" Piece" etc. I looked, but I haven't found anything obvious.

Thanks

Giles

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From: Kieren MacMillan <kieren@kierenmacmillan.info>
Sent: 14 May 2024 12:06
To: Giles Boardman <giles.boardman@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Naming lines of music

 

Hi Giles,

The \mark command is centred. Can text be formatted to be left aligned (and smaller)? Is there an initialisation parameter I can change to set its default alignment?

I can’t test what v2.18 does (that’s a very old version!), but 2.25.11 essentially** left-aligns the mark:

%%%  SNIPPET BEGINS

\version "2.25.11"

\layout {
  \context {
    \Score
    \override RehearsalMark.font-size = #1
    \override RehearsalMark.padding = #2.5
  }
}

theMusic = {
  \mark "Boore’s Dance"
  \key d \major
  \time 6/8
  a''4. g''4 d''8
  g''8 e''4. fis''4
  a''4. fis''4 d''8
  g''4 e''8 d''4.
  \bar "|."
}

\score {
  \new Staff \theMusic
}
%%%  SNIPPET ENDS

1. Note the context block I added, to [globally] adjust the font size of the RehearsalMark.

2. I prefer typographer’s quotes, so I changed the apostrophe in “Boore’s”.

3. Conventional coding in the ’Pond is to have a separate line for each measure of music, command/tweak, etc., so I recoded your example that way.

** I’m honestly not sure why there is a small discrepancy in the alignment — the left edge of the RehearsalMark should be exactly aligned with the left edge of the TimeSignature! — but you can adjust that with an extra-offset if it bothers you [as much as it bothers me!].

Hope this helps!

Kieren.

p.s.

Ideally, whatever method arrived at would then create a marker in a MIDI file - \mark does on last but one version of Lilypond, but not on my Windows 8.1, Lilypond "2.18.2" installation

Sorry — definitely can’t help with this! :(

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