Re: Text markup locations and background

[Mats Bengtsson]

W. C. wrote:
> I wanted to put a small piece of text ("ten") right beneath a note.  However, I 
> needed the text to appear over the staff, but \translate seems to stop as soon as the 
> text begins to cover the staff.  Is there any way to do this?

You can use the extra-offset property (see the mailing list archive
for lots of examples).

> Also, is there any way to set the background filling of text, so that the text 
> has a solid white background instead of transparent?

Then, you probably have to use some inline LaTeX code.
Try something like
\header{
  latexpackages = "color"
}

\score{
  ...

  c^"\\colorbox{white}{My text}"



   /Mats