Hi Marc, > So...what I am trying to do is put a block of text above a system that > occupies the full width of the page. This is a theatrical work, and the block > of text is a stage direction that is paragraph-length.
I do this all the time (see screenshot, attached). > I can create a dynamics context at the top of the score, and attach my markup > to a spacer rest at the beginning of that system. But then, Lilypond counts > my markup as part of the spacing calculation of the system, which is not the > desired effect. Tweaks are your friend! =) Change the X-extent (extreme: #empty-interval), etc. and Lilypond won’t even know the text is there. I have lots of syntactic sugar around this kind of thing — just let me know, and I’ll try to package it up for you to consider and/or use. Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info/> ‣ email: kie...@kierenmacmillan.info <mailto:kie...@kierenmacmillan.info>
