Re: Writing text in a measure

[Kees van den Doel]

Thanks that works except I'm in 2/4, but I can disable the stem easily.
Kees
----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Bannister <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:26 pm
Subject: Re: Writing text in a measure
To: Kees van den Doel <address@hidden>, Gilles Sadowski <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden

> Kees van den Doel wrote.
> > on 2.12.2 it does *not* work. The output is attached. Bug?
> 
> 
> It seems to me that LSR 258 is demonstrating only whiteout.
> It is not demonstrating how to deal with the concomitant 
> horizontal layout problems, because it cheats here: 
>  - uses ragged-right = ##f (with only one measure) to get 
> lots of space 
>  - uses extra-offset to move the text into this space.
> 
> And a newish bit of automagic confuses the issue: 
>  - 2.12 does short snippets with ragged-right by default; 
>  - 2.10 doesn't, and test2.ly specifies 2.10. 
> 
> And the s4-\markup of test2.ly doesn't put the text halfway up. 
> 
> 
> You could do something like LSR 475 to get Lilypond to do the 
> positioning. 
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=475
> 
> slashAndBurn = {
> \once \override NoteHead  #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
> \once \override NoteHead #'text = #(markup #:whiteout 
> " Play loud random notes, then burn your instrument (30 s) " ) }
> 
> mm = \relative c'' {
>   a4 b c d |
>   \slashAndBurn a1 | % "a": vertical position  "1": 
> notehead only
>   e4 d e c |
> }
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Robin
>