lowering an upper markup on the staff

In order to show where the separations between music cells are, I wrote: tic = \markup { \beam #.5 #2 #.5 } ... r16 c b^"a" a g e^\tic d^"b" f e8 which produces I'd like to get the tic lower, at least on the two upper lines of the staff

Re: lowering an upper markup on the staff

Thanks, that override works the way I want. Is there any way to put it in the variable itself so I won't have to repeat it all along the tune? I tried a lot of variation around tic = \once \override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = ##f \once \override TextScript.Y-offset = #-0.5 \markup { \beam

formatting a text before the score

Hi, In order to give the context of a short waltz I wrote for a performance of a play by Chekhov, I am trying to insert three cues of the play before the score. Here is my code: \markup { \abs-fontsize #12 \column { \vspace #1 \wordwrap {LIOUBOV On dirait qu'il y a de la musique quelque

Re: formatting a text before the score

Thanks a lot for the tips which work perfectly. I would like to understand how the \hspace #0 can impact the height of a line or the way it is wrapped. Is that explained anywhere in the documentation? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/formatting-a-text-befor