Rutger Hofman<rutger<at> cs.vu.nl> writes:
Thanks, this works well for multimeasure rests. But I would also like
the same mark to work for another staff that has music in it. With these
overrides, that looks weird: the markup is stretched over an empty
space, the music starts after it.
Is there some trickery to find out whether the mark has rests following it?
Or is there some trickery to selectively disable these overrides by
hand, e.g. when there are notes?
The mark does not use much trickery, it is in concept part of the
column of bar lines, and the extra-spacing-* settings define how much
space the mark gets to the other columns, whether these columns
contain notes or bar line.
Unfortunately RehearsalMark spacing has a few small bugs, such as
forgetting its space reservation after a couple columns of notes have
gone by. Probably, though, something along these lines will work for
you. You can treat special cases with \once\override...
\relative c' {
\override Score . RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\override Score . RehearsalMark #'extra-spacing-width = #'(-1 . 0)
%% Shift the space-reservation vertically up, to clear the stems
%% (stems get space reserved to the top of the staff in ver 2.12)
\override Score . RehearsalMark #'extra-spacing-height = #'(3 . 3)
%% Make bar lines taller than (most) stems
\override Score . BarLine #'extra-spacing-height = #'(0 . +3)
R1
\mark \markup "foo foo foo bar"
c1
\mark \markup "foo foo foo bar"
c4 d e f
c4 d e f
}
%% Enable drawing of spacing outlines
\layout { \context { \Score
\override NonMusicalPaperColumn #'stencil = #ly:separation-item::print
\override PaperColumn #'stencil = #ly:separation-item::print
}} #(ly:set-option 'debug-skylines)