Re: pizz and arco: a question

[Tim McNamara]

On May 12, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Sarah k Alawami <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ok. in braille music, I see the word "pizz "and i know until I see "arco" I 
> have to pluc the string. In lily pond I don't want to put \pizz over every 
> single note especially since with the \repeat volta 2 {music} I want to only 
> have the viola do \arco at the second time through this particular repeat.  
> So can I put a custom text after the \volta repeat 2 {custom text, music} to 
> let them know to do "arco" the second time? or what ever I decide to do? I 
> might do "pizza"  for the first time and "arco" for the second time through. 
> is this an easy thing to do? I tried looking up custom text but kind of got 
> no ware. lol! This manual is huge! lol! and i cannot commit all of it to 
> memory.

How about using \markup to write such information?

    c4^\markup "Pizz., 2nd time arco" d4 e4 f4

would put the directions above the staff; substituting an underscore for the 
carat would position the text below the staff.