Positioning graphic markup inside staff

[Ebo H]

Dear Lilypond users,

I am trying to position graphic markup within the staff.

The example attached shows a simple graphic used extensively by Kurtag to indicate a long pause. It is straight-forward to draw the marking as a graphic in markup with a path. <X-offset> will move the graphic as expected, but adjusting the <Y-offset>  will not position the markup on the staff.

There is a discussion of a similar issue at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-04/msg00673.html but the code is for v2.12 and no longer works (I am using 2.19.80).

Any help or direction to relevant documentation will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

delboh

example_15-2-18.ly
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