Re: Is there a better way to have a boxed part letter at the beginning of an arbitrary line?

[William Rehwinkel]

    Dear Kevin,
      
      I use "\sectionLabel"s for this.
      
      
      \version "2.25.6"
      
        \language "english"
       
      
        melody = \relative c' {
      
          \time 6/8
      
          \key d \major
      
          \clef treble
       
      
          \sectionLabel \markup{ \box \pad-markup #0.5 "A" }
      
          d8[ e8
      
        e8] g8[ a8 b8] |
      
          \break
      
          \sectionLabel \markup{  \box \pad-markup #0.5 "B"  }
      
          d8[ e8
      
        e8] g8[ a8 b8] |
      
          \bar "|."
      
        }
       
      
        \score {
      
          \new Voice = "mel" { \melody }
       
      
          \layout {
      
            \autoBeamOff
      
            indent = 0\mm
      
          }
      
        }
      
      BTw, I just saw the second email you sent in this thread, and I'm
      not exactly sure what you mean but I would probably have a
      separate variable with the section labels, and you can combine
      them, a bit like this:
      
      \version "2.25.7"
      
      sections={ \sectionLabel "1" s1 \sectionLabel "2"}
      music = { c'4 d' e' d' c' e' g' c' }
      
      \score {
        \new Staff << \sections \music >>
      }
      
      
      thanks,
      -William

On 8/16/23 14:02, Kevin Cole wrote:

> A minimum working example will make the question clearer: Although the
> following produces what I want, it seems very ugly, and I suspect
> there's a better way to accomplish the same thing: Placing the [A] and
> [B] boxed letters for the tune parts at the beginning of a line.
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \version "2.24.2"
> \language "english"
>
> melody = \relative c' {
>   \time 6/8
>   \key d \major
>   \clef treble
>
>   d8^\markup \translate #'(-10 . 0) { \box \pad-markup #0.5 "A" }[ e8
> e8] g8[ a8 b8] |
>   \break
>   d8^\markup \translate #'(-10 . 0) { \box \pad-markup #0.5 "B" }[ e8
> e8] g8[ a8 b8] |
>   \bar "|."
> }
>
> \score {
>   \new Voice = "mel" { \melody }
>
>   \layout {
>     \autoBeamOff
>     indent = 0\mm
>   }
> }
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>     
    
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