Re: 2.13.61 2 rehearsal marks - Solved 2 problems - new smaller one

[Paul Scott]

On 05/09/2011 01:33 AM, James Lowe wrote:
> Paul
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> Subject: 2.13.61 2 rehearsal marks
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> Hi,
>
> I need to to place a fermata over a bar line at the end of a line and
> have a rehearsal mark at the beginning of the next line.  I would
> normally use \mark to place the fermata over the bar line but then I
> don't know how to reuse \mark for the rehearsal mark.
>
> As a workaround I would consider not having the fermata bar line at the
> end of a line and do everything with one \mark but haven't seen a way to
> get the fermata exactly centered over the bar line.
>
>
>
> ----
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> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1
>
> :)
>
> However to get what you want is tricky as you want 'effectively' two \mark 
> glyphs at the same time (the fact that it is on the next line rather than the 
> end of the line is irrelevant to LilyPond - it is as if you were trying to 
> place them on the same spot) and you cannot do this easily.

That's why I asked.  :)

> There are some machinations that you can do to get two 'marks' on the same bar 
> line but above and below thus:
>
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=735
>
> and
>
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=736

I'm aware of those but I really want them both on top.
> However what you could also do is use the first method to put the fermata at 
> the end of the line then use a 'new' \mark in a new bar line on the next line 
> and a break-align it
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/aligning-objects#index-break_002dalign_002dsymbols

Actually in answering you I thought about trying \tempo \markup and it 
worked!
I have been faking rehearsal marks which are followed by tempo 
indications with
\mark \markup{ to get around another question I never got a workable 
answer to which is how to
get a left justified tempo indication *when the tempo indication is over 
a multimeasure rest*.  (I don't want those centered).

This seems to solve both problems leaving me with a much smaller problem:
getting the fonts for the faked rehearsal marks the exact same size as 
for normal rehearsal marks.

> and move it 'back' towards the start of the new line (if you see what I mean).
>
> You can even (I do this sometimes) use a normal markup to a note and then tweak 
> it so it shifts 'left'.

But I want to do all this in a global and the music differs for each 
instrument.

If we can solve the font size problem I will submit something to the LSR.

Thanks,

Paul