Re: texts created using \mark don't display

[Brett Duncan]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>   I finally finished the orchestration. But the teacher came with two 
> problems: one is double bar, which I can solve after asking him which 
> bar I made wrong; the second is about Fine and D.C. al Fine. I included 
> the mark engraver in the markline context, but the pdf doesn't display 
> texts created with \mark. Don't look deeply. Just pick up the defs at 
> the top of the file and the score frame near the end. Could you help me? 
> I'm about to orchestrate Brahms's Variation On A Theme By Handel. I 
> don't hope this problem happen again.
> BTW, why this warning occurs although I have no staff changes (I often 
> get this when writing piano or harp passage with staff changes)?
> warning: no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope
>
> Regards
> Haipeng

Actually, if you look more carefully, you will see that \mark is working 
- look at the "Fine" at the end of bar 24.

The issue is that LP's default is to position rehearsal marks at the 
beginning of a line, but your D.C al Fine mark is at the *end* of a line.

This is mentioned in the documentation:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-text#Text-marks

and the first snippet for that section specifically shows you how to get 
a D.C. al Fine at the end of your piece.

Brett