Re: \once \override works differently on R and r

2007-09-02 Thread David F. Place
Thanks, Graham. I see the warning in Ch. 8.2.1 about using MultiMeasureRestText instead of TextScript to move these markups. I was originally thrown off course, because I was trying to use the \translate text markup command described in 8.1.6. It works on TextScript, but is ignored by

Re: \once \override works differently on R and r

2007-09-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/2, David F. Place [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, Graham. I see the warning in Ch. 8.2.1 about using MultiMeasureRestText instead of TextScript to move these markups. I Iwas originally thrown off course, because I was trying to use the \translate text markup command described in 8.1.6.

Re: \once \override works differently on R and r

2007-09-02 Thread David F. Place
Thanks, Valentin. I see now that I misunderstood the function of \translate. I used at as the first operator in a markup in order to move the whole thing which I now understand is not supposed to work as described in the documentation of \raise. I was confused because it did work in

Re: once override works differently on R and r

2007-09-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello David, as you can see in the following snippet, there are several ways to print text above an empty measure; all of them wan be moved using the appropriate object name; besides since all of them accept the \markup command, all of them accept

\once \override works differently on R and r

2007-09-01 Thread David F. Place
Hi, I've had a fairly pleasant outing on my first lilypond project. Many thanks to those who helped me with the Webern accidentals. Everything was going swimmingly and I was nearly done but for tweaking the position of some TextScripts. Some just wouldn't move. Those that were

Re: \once \override works differently on R and r

2007-09-01 Thread Graham Percival
Rests and multi-measure rests are different objects. For general information about this, see chapters 3-5 and 10. You may also want to look at the doc pages for rest (somehwere in ch 6) and multi-measure rest (ch 8). Cheers, - Graham David F. Place wrote: Hi, I've had a fairly pleasant