Re: vertical placement of \mark

[Graham Percival]

On 16-Aug-05, at 1:05 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > Shortly before 2.7.5 was released, this behavior (which presumably was
> > a bug) reverted back to the old version -- the "mark" is printed 
> > right above
> > the staff lines.
> > Even though this was a bug, I found it *extremely* useful.  Could the 
> > "above
>
> what did you use it for?

"beautiful notation by default".  :)

For Real Life (ie longer) examples, see the stuff on my website 
(http://percial-music.ca).
For a useful example, see below.  This kind of notation (number of 
ledger lines and the slurs)
is typical for string music.

Without the \overrides, it's horribly ugly.
With the \overrides, it's good -- but it requires guessing and multiple 
experiments
to get good numbers.
With the "buggy" \mark behavior, I simply take the defaults for most 
things.  True,
I'd need to assign #'padding = #-3 or so for the last line.  But in my 
experience, I
always need to increase the #'padding for \marks; I only need to lower 
the #'padding
about 20% of the time.

I'm not suggesting that we use the "buggy" \mark for the default 
behavior (although
on second thought, that might be a good idea anyway :) .  All I really 
want is an
option to use that behavior if we wish.


\version "2.7.4"
\relative c' { \clef bass
\set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-letters

%\override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #2.0
c4 c d c b a g fis( \mark \default g) g g g \break
%\override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #5.5
a b c d e d e fis( \mark \default g) g fis e \break
%\override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #3.5
d1 b4 b a g( \mark \default d') c b a g1
%\revert Score.RehearsalMark #'padding
g'4 d b g a2 d,( \mark \default a1)
}