Thanks that works except I'm in 2/4, but I can disable the stem easily. Kees ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin Bannister <r...@dataway.ch> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:26 pm Subject: Re: Writing text in a measure To: Kees van den Doel <kvand...@shaw.ca>, Gilles Sadowski <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Kees van den Doel wrote. > > on 2.12.2 it does *not* work. The output is attached. Bug? > > > It seems to me that LSR 258 is demonstrating only whiteout. > It is not demonstrating how to deal with the concomitant > horizontal layout problems, because it cheats here: > - uses ragged-right = ##f (with only one measure) to get > lots of space > - uses extra-offset to move the text into this space. > > And a newish bit of automagic confuses the issue: > - 2.12 does short snippets with ragged-right by default; > - 2.10 doesn't, and test2.ly specifies 2.10. > > And the s4-\markup of test2.ly doesn't put the text halfway up. > > > You could do something like LSR 475 to get Lilypond to do the > positioning. > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=475 > > slashAndBurn = { > \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print > \once \override NoteHead #'text = #(markup #:whiteout > " Play loud random notes, then burn your instrument (30 s) " ) } > > mm = \relative c'' { > a4 b c d | > \slashAndBurn a1 | % "a": vertical position "1": > notehead only > e4 d e c | > } > > > Cheers, > Robin > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
