Re: segno/coda in lyrics

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-11-15 12:28, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Ahoi!
>
> I’ve some variations in a song, so that one verse uses a different ending 
> melody. I’d like to mark that with segno/coda signs, like this:
>
> textIII = \lyricmode {
>   \repeat unfold 7 { " " }
>   blah blah blah
>   % \override Score.RehearsalMark.font-size = #3
>   % \override Score.RehearsalMark.extra-offset = #'( 2 . -1.75 )
>   and here the ly -- \markup { rics \musicglyph #"scripts.segno" }
>   \repeat unfold 14 { " " }
>   \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.coda" con -- } tin -- ue else -- where.
> }
>
> That works so far, but the signs are too big, and too low. I’d like them in 
> captital height on the text line.
>
> The commented overrides don’t work – what’s wrong?

Hi Hraban,

the overrides apply to RehearsalMarks that are part of the score.
However, the symbols you added are just characters in a different font 
(Feta/Emmentaler) that are in a LyricText.

What you should do here is to simply adjust the fontsize with the usual 
fontsize markup commands:

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice = "sop" { \repeat unfold 8 c' }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "sop" {
      A B C D
      \markup { \general-align #Y #DOWN \fontsize #-5 \musicglyph 
#"scripts.segno" E }
      \markup { \general-align #Y #-0.7 \fontsize #-2 \musicglyph 
#"scripts.coda" F }
    }
  >>
}

The \general-align #Y #DOWN adjusts the vertical position. 
Unfortunately, I don't think you can easily have a "baseline alignment" 
and/or set the size to "match the height of capitals", since the symbols 
in the music font are designed to have sizes matched relative to each 
other (read: to note heads etc.) and not to a standard text font. So 
you'll have to experiment a bit there.


Cheers,
Alexander