Re: Markups attached to elements other than notes?

[Mark Knoop]

At 15:34 on 22 May 2025, James Harkins wrote:
> I'd like to attach a performance direction to the right
> edge of a particular bar. If I could \markup \right-align
> and attach to the barline, it would be so easy, but
> markups seem to apply only to notes or rests.

> Complicating matters is that there are multiple \score
> blocks, and the barline happens to conclude the last bar
> in the first \score. So there's no time point after this
> barline.

> Like this -- http://www.dewdrop-world.net/assets/img/connect-to.png -- but 
> without the massive vertical space between the staff and the text.

> All I can think of is to have another voice with, e.g. in
> 3/4, s2 s8. s16 and attach to the s16. It won't be truly
> right justified but maybe it's close enough.

> Any other ideas?

In cases like this I often use a TextSpanner, setting the 
bound-details.right.text to your markup and making sure to-barline = ##t.

You could also use \textMark, you may need to override break-visibility = 
#begin-of-line-invisible. 

-- 
Mark Knoop