Re: Preferred way for text

[Mats Bengtsson]

Depends on what you want to use it for.

For a longer section of text, such as lyrics lines for some verses
of a song, you can actually have a \markup{...} completely outside the
\score{...}.

Hans de Rijck wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> What is the preferred way to add general texts?
> So far I've found two ways that are reasonably 'universal':
>
> \mark \markup { MyText }

gives you a textual indication over a bar line or between notes.

> or
>
> s1*0 ^\markup { MyText }

gives you a textual indication over a note (assuming that the s1*0
starts at the same time as a note).
> where the latter has the possibility to position the text above the staff.

Yes, assuming that you mean that you can have different text over
different staves, as opposed to \mark which only places text over
the top stave.

> or is there another way that should be used for general purpose?

Too general question to answer!

R1^\markup { MyText } for texts centered over full measure rests, for
example.

  /Mats