Re: Breathes placement

[Patrick or Cynthia Karl]

On May 1, 2013, at 5:49 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 00:49:32 +0200 (CEST)
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Breathes placement
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a question about the placements of breathe symbols.
> 
> When measure bars are placed automatically, and when a \breathe is placed 
> at the end of a measure, it seems that it is placed *after* the bar, 
> before the first note of the next measure.  I would like them to be placed 
> after the last note of the measure to which they belong.  I know that it 
> is possible to tweak their position with
> 
> \context { \Staff \override BreathingSign #'extra-offset = #'(-1.0 . 0.0) }
> 
> for example, but this does not really solve the problem, because the 
> breathe symbols that are correctly positioned by default (in the middle of 
> a measure) would also be affected by this setting.
> 
> I also tried to force the breathe symbol to be placed before the bar by 
> putting an explicit \bar "|" or \bar "" indication in the source file, but 
> LilyPond then puts it in an otherwise empty measure.
> 
> In short: is there a way to force LilyPond to put breathe symbols always 
> after the previous note, i.e. as close as possible to that note?

The following snippet results in the breath mark just after the f in the first 
measure:

\version "2.16.2"

\relative c' { c d e f\breathe g a b c }