Text setting

[Neil Killeen]

Hi

I am still finding placing text a rather arcane art.  I wish to place
the initial piece marking "Allegro" right at the beginning
of my 4-staff piece.  The upper three staves are whole-bar rests
rests with notes in the last staff.


The syntax

      R1^\markup{ \fontsize #2.5 { With passion } ( \raise # 0.5 { \note 
#"2" #1.0 }=55) }

places the marking too far to the left and too low.  So I have tried to move 
it with

      \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'( 2.0 . 1.0 )
      R1^\markup{ \fontsize #2.5 { With passion } ( \raise # 0.5 { \note 
#"2" #1.0 }=55) }

but it has no effect.  If I use 'r1' instead of 'R1' then it does have 
effect.  I found the
same with the

\mark \markup

construct; that it was not located  correctly.  So my conclusion is
that the use of the whole-bar rest is messing up my ability to move the text
around.


regards
Neil