Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

[Mats Bengtsson]

In contrast to the previous people who answered the questions, I would 
say that you cannot directly apply the same idea to move
a whole line of chords. See 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-03/msg00411.html
for a hint on how to solve the problem.

  /Mats

Quoting Jennifer Clark <address@hidden>:

> Jennifer Clark wrote:
> > Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
> > > This should be simple but I cant find an answer after exhaustive tries.
> > >
> > > How can I attach a bit of markup text immediately to the left of the first
> > > chord in a ChordNames context staff?
> >
> >
> > Did anyone reply to this? I have a similar requirement as well, i.e. 
> > if I put markup text above the staff, then lilypond will shift the 
> > chords higher up to get out of its way, which is usually a good 
> > thing. But there are a few times when I would prefer that the chords 
> > just remained as they are.
>
> Sorry for answering my own post, but I have found something that may 
> be relevant; in the manual, it says you can move about items through 
> use of the extra-offset, e.g. for markup text, which seems quite 
> effective;
>
>   \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-1.3 . 1.3)
>
> Is it possible to apply the same thing to chords?
>
> Jennifer
>
>
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