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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Moving a word at the beginning of a chart ?
From:       Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmillan () sympatico ! ca>
Date:       2006-06-28 16:35:12
Message-ID: 5C101FCE-FA95-47B8-9281-5FBD4392450E () sympatico ! ca
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Joe:

> Recently I have tried notating music with Lilypond.  I have to say  
> it's been a very frustrating and arduous experience.

Sorry to hear that -- I used Finale for over a decade, Igor Engraver  
for several years, and even Sibelius for a little while, but find  
Lilypond to be far less frustrating and arduous than those  
applications.  =)

> I would like to know how to move the word "Swing" at the top of my  
> little
> sax transposition chart so that it lines up with the tempo marking.

There are at least a dozen ways I can think of to accomplish what you  
are asking -- one would be to use the #'extra-offset feature to  
manually move each item to the desired location, e.g.,

	\override Score.RehearsalMark #'extra-offset = #'(-0.4 . 2.6)
	\mark \markup {\small \bold { Swing }}
	\override Score.MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 3)
	\tempo 4=112

This is not necessarily the best way to fix your example, nor would  
it be my final recommendation, but it's the one that alters your  
original code the least.

Regards,
Kieren.

p.s. For the record, I'd personally put both the tempo and metronome  
markings in the same \markup...



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