Re: pizz and arco: a question

[Sarah k Alawami]

Hey thank you thank you thank you for the mark up idea. It appears to have 
worked and didn't error out so I guess that's good.  I can't wait to get this 
done. I'm sick of hearing this song over and over and… at least in my head 
anyways. 

Be blessed.
On May 12, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On May 12, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Sarah k Alawami <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> How about using \markup to write such information?
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>    c4^\markup "Pizz., 2nd time arco" d4 e4 f4
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> would put the directions above the staff; substituting an underscore for the 
> carat would position the text below the staff.