Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

[lilypond]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:39:20AM +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also often run into this situation, but it also applies to dynamic 
> marks etc. (e.g. a phrase is repeated eight times, and I need a mf at 
> the beginning and  p at the fifth repetition). There probably are more 
> situations where you have this problem.
> 
> The workaround I sometimes use (if it is less work than changing the 
> variables) is to to use a separate voice that mainly consists of skips. 
> Then I can insert markups wherever I want (with s1^\markup ...).

Thank you very much, Urs.  This is a good tip.  I used your suggestion
just in the repeat endings, since that is where most of my markup
is needed.  My arrangement (or rather, the melody staff) now
looks like this, and I have plenty of 'hooks' to hang markup on,
if needed.  Having one markup location per bar also eliminates
much of the need for large x-axis offsets.  The granularity of
the s1 elements can be adjusted to s4 s4 s4 s4 if I need finer
control of x-axis placement that will still 'float' with changes in
layout/page breaks, etc.

Most grateful!

Jim


melody = \relative c' {

  \key ees \major
  \time 4/4

  \bar "|:"

  \repeat percent 2 \introMelody

  \bar ":|:"
  \break

  \mark \markup \musicglyph #"scripts.segno"

  \repeat volta 4 { \headMelody }
  \alternative {
% first ending:
    {
      \break
      <<
        \new Voice = "first" {
          \firstEndingMelody
        } % first Voice
        \new Voice = "second" {
          s1 s1 s1 s1 s1
        } % second Voice
      >>
      \bar ":|"
    } % first ending
% second ending:
    {
      \break
      <<
        \new Voice = "first" {
          \secondEndingMelody
        } % first Voice
        \new Voice = "second" {
          s1
        } % second Voice
      >>
      \bar ":|"
    } % second ending
% third ending:
    {
      \set chordChanges = ##f
      <<
        \new Voice = "first" {
          \thirdEndingMelody
        } % first Voice
        \new Voice = "second" {
          s1 s1 s1 s1 s1
        } % second Voice
      >>
      \set chordChanges = ##t
    } % third ending
% fourth ending:
    {
      \break
      <<
        \new Voice = "first" {
          \fourthEndingMelody
        } % first Voice
        \new Voice = "second" {
          s1 s1 s1 s1 s1 s1
        } % second Voice
      >>
    } % fourth ending
  } % repeat/alternative

  \bar "|."

} % melody