Re: moving things

[Nick Payne]

 On 17/10/10 12:43, Bill Mooney wrote:
> 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.

Have a look at the \tweak command:

e.g. r2-\tweak #'extra-offset #'(x . y)^\markup { sometext }

where the x and y values in the tweak command are the numeric x and y 
offsets (either +ve or -ve) from the default placement.

See s.5.3.4 of the 2.13.35 notation ref.

Nick