Re: textscript at start of bar, and hiding skipped bars?

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:43:54 +0200
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> >>That's the purpose of the \mark command.
> >>
> >>     /Mats
> >>
> >> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> >> > Is it possible to put markup text above the start of the staff?
> >or> > at the start of any measure?
> >> > Sometimes you want to have some textual instruction that is
> >> > associated to a measure, not to a single note!
> >> > 
> >> > I also wonder if it is possible to hide (white out) empty
> >(skipped)> > bars.
> >> > 
> >> > version: 2.5.18
> > 
> > 
> > The \mark command only prints above the top stave in the system.
> > (which is right for rehearsal marks).
> 
> True! Unless you move the Mark_engraver from the Score context to
> the Staff context.

..which means that I can't put rehearsalmarks above the top staff. =)
It would be nice with a "pseudo" object: \StartOfBar which you could
attach markup to as usual:

    \StartOfBar ^\markup \italic "non vibrato"

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-