Re: coda placement problem

[Brett Duncan]

Kenneth Teh wrote:
> I'm having trouble placing the coda symbol.
...
> The problem is that the \raise does not produce an effect.

Text markup commands like \raise and \translate shift objects in 
relation to their surrounding markups. So

r8^\markup { \raise #3.0 {...

doesn't work because you have nothing before the \raise.

> What would
> really be nice is to put the "huge coda" right above
> the clef at the beginning of the line so that the coda
> section is clearly marked.

Try this:

r8^\markup { \hspace #0.1 \translate #(cons -4.5 3) {\huge { \musicglyph 
#"scripts.coda" }}}

Brett