OK, now a real question (after -- I think -- RTFMing this time). I was looking for a way to have a text mark, e.g. '15-20" electronics' -- appear only once at the top of a score system, while also appearing in each of the parts (in the way that a rehearsal marking may be specified in every staff, but printed only once at the top).
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/text-marks advises against using \mark for this -- but \textMark renders the text once for every time it's defined, *not* only once per staff system. For a minimal example, take the "Printing marks on every staff" example and remove the layout block: \score { << \new Staff { \mark \default c''1 \textMark "molto" c'' } \new Staff { \mark \default c'1 \textMark "molto" c' } >> } You get *one* rehearsal mark A (good) and *two* times "molto," both of them over the topmost staff (huh?? understandable from a programming perspective, but nobody wants this printed result). Other than tagging the \textMarks, how does one control this? This is for a woodwind quintet with electronics. I don't need the first bar to show: Moderate q=116 15-20" electronics 15-20" electronics 15-20" electronics 15-20" electronics 15-20" electronics fermata (I think I can't abuse \mark for this, because there will be some cases where a timing like this will coincide with a rehearsal mark -- "the ability to have several text marks at the same moment" -- so I'm wondering if there's a better way than tagging.) hjh
