Re: Making a staff take extra vertical space?

[Mats Bengtsson]

One method is to typeset the text as a text script instead of using \mark:

   | c'4^\markup { \huge \line{ \box "C" \bold "(first time only)" }}

Then it will be connected to the stave and therefore the chords
will move out of the way automatically. You already know how to move 
these things horizontally using extra-offset. However, you maybe don't 
know that you can also use
   \once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #-0.8
(-1 corresponds to normal left alignment, 0 to center and +1 to right, 
but as is shown here, you can use any value in between or even outside
the range [-1,1] ). I hope you also know about the disadvantages of 
using extra-offset.

  /Mats

Quoting Robert Kennedy <address@hidden>:

> > In the latest development version, this problem doesn't exist anymore
> > since the collision handling has been improved. Actually, the result you
> > get there is similar to what you get if you add
> >     \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #6
> > before the corresponding \mark command, i.e it appears above the
> > chords.
>
> Thanks for the information! I wonder, though, how I can get it to
> appear *below* the chords, which is not how lead sheets are often
> done, but I think it might be better in some situations.
>
>         -- Robert
>
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