Re: printing a tiny pianostaff at the beginning of a score

[Mark Knoop]

At 07:56 on 19 Feb 2020, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> Thanks, the \scale hint was very useful.
> Doing it before the \score block isn't convenient as I'd have
> to repeat the insertion in every book. Using markup
> in header seems ok for now, I'd only need some proper alignment,
> as I'm currently doing this wild thing:
>
>   piece = \markup {
>     \italic "      With a beat                      "
>     \scale #(cons 0.8 0.8)
>     \score {
>       ...
>     }
>   }
>
> The spaces I'm using to move the tiny score more or less at
> the center of the sheet, but is fragile. Also the "With a beat"
> text position is too high, it would be nice to have better
> control over it.

Take a look at the \translate markup command.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/align

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Mark Knoop