Re: caesura but not as a breath mark

[Hans Aikema]

On 13-1-2012 21:39, Tim Reeves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I put in "railroad tracks" / caesura in the middle of the staff?
> The only example I can find in the documentation has it as a breath mark,
> so it's at the top of the staff.
> I want it vertically centered on the staff.
Tim,

To align the caesura in the middle of the staff all you need to do in 
addition to the LSR-snippet you mentioned is to override the Y-offset of 
the breath mark:

\relative c'' {
  \override BreathingSign #'text = \markup {
    \musicglyph #"scripts.caesura.straight"
  }
  \override BreathingSign #'Y-offset = #0
  c8 e4. \breathe g8. e16 c4
}


regards,
Hans