On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Jonathan Kulp wrote: >> I don't know. This is definitely a strange example. The \mark >> command is meant to insert something over a barline, so maybe it'd be >> best to delete this example altogether and reword things a bit so that >> the example with "colla parte" is the only one illustrating this >> feature. > Agreed! It's very rare to insert textual indications between > the notes within a measure (where, on the other hand, it's > not uncommon to attach textual indications to a specific > note, i.e. using a text script).
+1 Why the Mao is the first example in this doc section such an odd case? Jonathan, please change the first example to: c1 \mark "something musical" c1 (but replace "something musical" with whatever you think makes sense) Third paragraph: I see "this syntax allows to print...". I know that I've compained about this in the past to Valentin. Jonathan, please fix this as well. > You might want to replace > "colla parte" with "Coda", but again it's very hard to illustrate > the usefulness of using \mark for textual indications if you're > not allowed to change the alignment to #LEFT or #RIGHT. > I'm not convinced that it's less confusing to avoid the use of > \override and instead provide more or less irrelevant examples > of useful features. I'm *totally* happy with a snippet that does this. But I still think that we should keep the main text as is -- if nothing else, it displays the limitations of the default settings. Jonathan, if nobody's done this already, please add a snippet saying something like "by default, lilypond centers the mark, but this can be difficult to align textual indications. The alignment can be easily changed: c1 \mark "blargl" c1 \once \override ... right \mark "blargl" c1 \once \override ... left \mark "blargl" c1 " Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
