Re: centralising markups above notes

[Gilberto Agostinho]

Hi Jean,

On 09/04/2021 15:36, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> What you are doing is more or less the proper
> way. Objects have two parameters for alignment
> because it should depend on both the extents of
> the aligned object and its parent. This was
> briefly discussed in this recent thread:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2021-02/msg00016.html
>
> For what it's worth, you can do
>
> center = \tweak parent-alignment-X 0 \tweak self-alignment-X 0 \etc
>
> and then it's a matter of
>
> {
>     d''1\center ^"III."
> }

Thank you so much for the reply. It's good to know this is basically the 
right way of doing things, I will use your suggested approach of 
combining multiple tweaks on a single variable and use it in the score 
as in your example.

Many thanks,
Gilberto