Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

[Mats Bengtsson]

Bec and John Silva wrote:
> Hi Mats,
>
> Thanks for that, I'm almost there. A problem I'm having is that when I use:
>
> \mark \markup { \hspace #-3.0 \lower #0.0 { \number \teeny { \bracket 
> \column { "6" "4" } } } }
>
> The pseudo-time signature is very far above the staff, and using \lower 
> lowers the entire staff instead of lowering the markup. Since I'm using 
> this as a means to show time signature changes without putting it in the 
> staff lines, I'm using that markup within the part.

The distance from the staff to the bottom edge of the \mark is
determined by the padding property of the RehearsalMark object,
as described in the "The \override Command" section of the manual.
So,
  \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #0.0
will place it so it touches the staff.
You may also want to play with the horizontal alignment, for example
  \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #-1
to make it left aligned instead of the default centering.

Finally, \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t will leave
an empty space in the stave where the time signature would have been
printed. If you want to get rid of this extra space, you could instead
do   \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f


   /Mats