Empty chord construct and \break.

Greetings, I am trying to typeset a stack of spoken lines above a multimeasure rest. This works fine when preceded by notes in the same system. However, when it follows a forced break, the output is not so desirable. Can anyone explain what I am missing? MWE below. \version "2.24.3" \score {

Re: slur cross staves

Thanks, Knuite, this helped me a lot. Robert. > El 27 abr. 2024, a les 1:07, Knute Snortum va escriure: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:57 PM Robert Garrigos > wrote: >> This is the original music to copy: >> >> >> >> I have this: >> >> << >> { >>

Re: Transparent box around notes

Note that there's also this (no trial-and-error): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00142.html But it doesn't compile with 2.24... On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 2:20 PM Paolo Prete wrote: > Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to fit what I'm > looking

Re: Transparent box around notes

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to fit what I'm looking for. Looking for example at https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=background+%7C+colorspan , the box coordinates must be calculated with a trial and error procedure, which is pretty tedious. Cheers, P On Sat, Apr 27,

Re: Transparent box around notes

Paolo Prete wrote: Something like: \coloredBox color offsLeft offsTop offsRight offsBottom "labelstring" labeldirection { c' e' f' } Many thanks for your help! Paolo This may get you started: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=background+%7C+colorspan Cheers, Robin