Re: text in horizontal space between staves

[Robin Bannister]

Patrick Schmidt wrote:  
>  is it possible to align the coda signs underneath "D.S. al"? 

Well, this makes the markup narrower  
and then you start to see that we had no horizontal centering.   

Using a breathing sign instead of a note head makes it easy to 
anchor the markup in the middle of the measure.  
By default you get a half-measure gap on either side.   

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \stopStaff  
 s2 
 \once \override BreathingSign #'text = #dsalcodacoda
 \once \override BreathingSign #'Y-offset = 0          % vertical anchor
 \once \override BreathingSign #'X-extent = #'(-1 . 1) % change side gaps
 \breathe  
 s2
 \startStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  


And the markup must be centered both horizontally and vertically: 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
dsalcodacoda = 
 \markup \vcenter \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \center-column { 
   \line { D.S. al } 
   \line { \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" - \hspace #0.5 
           \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" } }
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


Cheers,
Robin