moving things

[Bill Mooney]

Greetings,
A question on usage...
I have been having difficulty in coming to grips with the commands to 
move musical elements, markups, etc from their default positions.
The accompanying example shows what I've been trying to do and the way I 
managed it.
Advice is sought and comments on whether what I've done is 'the' way to 
do it, and if there are better ways.
The usage of \vspace and \hspace within a \markup command don't seem to 
be similar in their action when one ( I ) would assume that since \hspce 
moves the markup horizontally, \vspace would move it vertically.

See also my notes in the ly file

A question on program development...
Would it be possible to make 'moving' commands consistent in their 
syntax and place of application so that e.g. one would write
\markup { \move#H:V "Text" }
(where H and V are the horizontal and vertical distances from the 
default position in some reasonable unit: mm, allowing the use of 
decimals  - say 5.7:6.3 for example)
to move the word "Text"
- and make the command work for all objects both in and outside the 
staff except, of course, notes.
 - and without the need for users to write clever Scheme things
(I'm 'not' a programmer!) :)

Thank you for your help with this.
Bill

movings.ly
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