I have a bar which contains 3 notes, e.g. fs4 ds as' |
It comes after a passage which is pizzicato, but the 2nd and 3rd notes of this bar need to be arco. However, a normal "arco" marking over the d sharp does not make it sufficiently clear that that is what is intended: particularly because of some earlier passages, a player might easily think that the arco applies only to the 3rd note. So I have a marking larco = \markup { \larger \italic "┌ arco" } The extra character is intended to make it clear that the 2nd note of the bar has to be played arco. In order to do that, the mark needs to be moved to the left so that the little bracket clearly includes the note, rather than pointing directly to it. So that bar is now fs4 \once \override TextScript.self-alignment-X = #-0.6 ds^\larco as' | This works well. My question is this: is there some way to include the position override or a tweak within the definition of "larco", so that I don't have to add it separately every time I use the marking? I have tried a number of experiments with this, but so far I haven't figured out how to get it to work. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user