Re: left-aligning grobs to other grobs

[James Lowe]

Hello,

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From: David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:08:01 -0500
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: LilyPond User <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: left-aligning grobs to other grobs

>Any feedback -- suggestions for improvement, ideas for a use -- would
>be much appreciated!

One thing I always find a bit frustrating with aligning being able to
align 'easily' with barlines without having to resort to \mark commands.

There are 'problems' having to '\mark's on the same bar line - and while
we do have a snippet to do this (two actually) one is easy but impractical
in many instances and the other is just very complicated - you have to add
another voice which when you are dealing with a lot of fiddly
markups/accents/chords etc is cumbersome.

So being able to do something like tie a grob (I.e. A coda or a segno sign
are my most common requirements) no the note before/after but being able
to 'at least' left or right align it with a bar line so it 'appears' as if
it is at the bar line would be very useful for me. A lot of my music I
have a rehearsal mark smack on the same bar as I need a coda or segno
sign. To be able to just say ' ok tie this mark to the last note of the
bar but align it with the bar line that comes after it would be great.

I am not sure if that was something that you think could be done without
complicated 'break align'/multiple voice statements. This would also save
me a ton of time when marking up a lot of string music that requires me to
use a lot of -\tweak X to move my markups 'away' from the top of a note.
Again for example if I am setting a top C with an accent AND I need to put
'arco' as well as a bow mark by the time the 'arco' is plopped on top it's
like some huge musical knickerbocker glory! I always have to then shift
the text to the left or right manually for it to drop down or fit nicely.
But being able to align it to something might be simpler as often I have
room either on the note before or the bar.

Those are the kind of problems I wonder that could be solved?

James