I wonder whether any of you Lilypond wizards could help me work out how to
improve my Lilypond scores.
Most of my embellishments come from reading/copying bits of code from this
forum - but I admit I don't always fully understand why things work.
However, I have this 'snippet' which I call "Markup anywhere", which
basically allows a markup to be added without disrupting any of the
positioning of other items.
What I would like is to know how it can be improved - so that I can use it
without copying large chunks of code whenever it is required. The amended
markup is demonstrated here:-
c1^\markup { \null \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0)
\translate #'(-10.0 . -4.0)
\override #'(font-name ."Tahoma bold italic")
\fontsize #-2 \with-color #(x11-color "LimeGreen")
\box \box \whiteout
"Put your text here"
Could this be streamlined and generalised somehow, and yet still be able to
accept various variable to alter position/colour etc
I've attached a lilypond file which demonstrates what I mean.
Just as a side note - why does the \whiteout not work perfectly?
Thank you for reading this and I appreciate any thoughts, amendments, and
suggestions.
Colin Baguley
\version "2.22.1"
\header {
title = "Please improve this"
}
global = {
\time 4/4
\key c \major
}
melody = \relative c'' {
\global
c4 d e
f^\markup { \null \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0)
\translate #'(-10.0 . -4.0) % LEFT/RIGHT UP/DOWN
\override #'(font-name ."Tahoma bold italic")
\fontsize #-2 \with-color #(x11-color "LimeGreen")
\box \box \whiteout
"This markup can be placed anywhere without affecting any other placement" }
| g f e d | c b a2 | c4 d e f | g f e d | c b
a2^\markup { \null \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0)
\translate #'(0.0 . -4.5) % LEFT/RIGHT UP/DOWN
\override #'(font-name ."Tahoma bold italic")
\fontsize #-2 \with-color #(x11-color "red")
\box \whiteout
"But I'm sure the code be improved - and yet still allow variables in position/colour etc" }
c4 d e f | g f e d | c b a2 c4 d e f | g f e d
c^\markup { \null \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0)
\translate #'(-10.0 . -6.0) % LEFT/RIGHT UP/DOWN
\override #'(font-name ."Tahoma bold italic")
\fontsize #-2 \with-color #(x11-color "Blue")
\whiteout
"you can see I'm copy & pasting big chunks of code, and altering it a bit"}
b a2 c4 d e f | g f e d |
c_\markup {\italic \bold \box {\column
{
\line {an ordinary markup}
\line {pushes my lyric line}
\line {down}
} } }
b a2 c4 d
e^\markup { \null \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0)
\translate #'(-10.0 . -8.0) % LEFT/RIGHT UP/DOWN
\override #'(font-name ."Tahoma bold italic")
\fontsize #-2 \with-color #(x11-color "brown")
\whiteout
"but this allows me to put odd comments in without moving anything else"}
\f f, \p g f e d | c \ff b \ppp a2
}
words = \lyricmode {
\repeat unfold 6 { one two three four five six se -- ven eight nine ten}
}
\score {
<<
\new Staff { \melody }
\addlyrics { \words }
>>
\layout { }
}
