Re: moving objects

[Mats Bengtsson]

As others have pointed out, it's much easier to provide a relevant
answer if you include some .ly code that you tried yourself.

Using the example in the manual (section "Text marks") as a starting 
point, you can certainly move around the D.S using padding, for example:

\version "2.10.0"
\relative c''{
    \override Score.RehearsalMark
      #'break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible
    c1 c c c4 c c c
    \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right
    \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #3.0
    \mark "D.S. al Fine "
}

See also Section 5, "Tweaking output" in the manual.

  /Mats

Quoting Frederick Dennis <address@hidden>:

> So far, as a total beginnner, I've produced several different pdf's of
> single stave notes with title, composer, tempo and multirests. However, my
> segno touches the next note. Can I shift it? No. Neither up or sideways. Not
> using padding, \once \override, #'extra-offset or musicglyph, mark or markup
> or spaces in quotes. My D.S. al Coda remains firmly fixed, nestling
> obstinately among the notes and my Coda sign and text will not go where I
> want them to. With Sibelius, I just pick the **@(**& up with the mouse and
> deposit it but with lilypond this will not do. Surely, something as simple
> as positioning the segno would be self-evident? Wouldn't it?
> Frederick Dennis.