Re: Moving text on multibar rest

[Graham Percival]

On 17-May-06, at 7:44 AM, Peter Clarke wrote:

> R1*8^\markup { \hspace #-5 "Verse 1" }

Try using \translate or \transpose (I can't remember the actual command 
name).  You may need to construct it like this:
\markup { \hspace #0 \translate ... }

> \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'( -5.0 . 0.0 )
> R1*8^\markup { "Verse 1" }
>
> Any ideas why these didn't work, and how can I do it?

extra-offset should have worked.

You could also try
<<R1*8 s0^\markup{at the beginning}>>

Cheers,
- Graham