Re: Instruction text between header and staff

[Kieren MacMillan]

p.s.

>> I'm trying to add some instruction text in my score. I would like to 
>> position it between the header and the music, but I cannot seem to figure 
>> out how to do this, as markup cannot be placed inside a score block. I also 
>> tried taking the header out of the score block which still seemed to produce 
>> the exact same result.

For this, just use a new header property, and define your scoreTitleMarkup 
accordingly:

%%%  SNIPPET 3 BEGINS
\version "2.18.2"

\header {
  title = "A Piece"
  composer = "Someone"
}

\paper {
  scoreTitleMarkup = \markup \column {
     \fill-line {
      \null
      \fontsize #4 \bold \fromproperty #'header:piece
      \fromproperty #'header:opus
    }
    \vspace #2
    \fromproperty #'header:instructions
    \vspace #2
  }
  markup-markup-spacing.padding = 8
  markup-score-spacing.padding = 8
}

first = \relative c'' { \repeat unfold 32 { c4 } }

\header {
  piece = "I"
  instructions = "Here are some instructions on how you should play my piece."  
}

\score {
  \new Staff { \first }
  \layout { indent = 0.0 }
}
%%%  SNIPPET 3 ENDS

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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