Re: caesura

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:05:41 -0700
Paul Scott <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 2. This symbol needs to be in the staff. It usually cuts the top two 
> lines of the staff. I don't know enough about placing markup or other 
> marks anywhere I want them. This has caused me difficulty for locating
> other text needed on basic musical parts.
> 
> Any more hints?
> 
> Even though I am not complaining since this is a volunteer project I
> am surprised that no one has needed this common (to me at least)
> musical notation.

I wanted to use this when I was first beginning in Lilypond, but I
pretty much only knew about the stuff in the tutorial.  I tried using
^#"//", but in the end I gave up and wrote it in by hand.  Now I use
breath marks and fermatas in an attempt to mimic it -- not perfect, but
it's ok.

If I wanted to use it now, I'd try using a bold, smaller-font "//" and use
#'extra-offset to lower it until it covers those lines in the staff.
Consult the "fine tuning a piece" portion of the tutorial for more details
on this.

HTH,
- Graham