Re: text in staff

[Doug Asherman]

address@hidden wrote:
> hi everybody,
> getting quite fluent in lilypond by now. it's even more fun using it, 
> if you get to know the app better.
> 
> one thing i'm still struggling with: how to put text in the staff?
> the picture below has been done with photoshop (not the most elegant 
> way :) )
> i tried the \markup command \lower put that didn't help.
>
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You can change the position of the text by doing this:

\override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -2)

You can play with the values, but basically, the first value is the x
and the second value is y.

After you're done, though, don't forget to:

\revert TextScript #'(extra-offset) unless you modified the override
with \once.

Doug