Hi Gabriel,

Rehearsal marks are almost universally always placed at bar lines, then
there's no possibly ambiguity about where they are; and if there is an
obvious upbeat (which is highly unlikely to be the case if you're engraving
polyphony, but oh well) then it's not much trouble for the director to tell
"start on the upbeat of K"... Gould suggests they should either be
left-aligned or centered over the bar line, which seems good advice. That
said, if you still need to put a mid-measure rehearsal mark, the exact
behaviour of self-alignment-x is described in the documentation
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/rehearsalmark>, I
don't know if that will help you get closer to what you want; I generally
find X-offset and if need be extra-offset to be more useful for adjusting
the position of the occasional element (be it text, dynamics or rehearsal
marks) that ends up being in the wrong spot.

Cheers,

Aleksa

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