Re: textscript at start of bar, and hiding skipped bars?

[Bernard Hurley]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:56 -0300, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:43:54 +0200
> Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > >>That's the purpose of the \mark command.
> > >>
> > >>     /Mats
> > >>
> > >> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> > >> > Is it possible to put markup text above the start of the staff?
> > >or> > at the start of any measure?
> > >> > Sometimes you want to have some textual instruction that is
> > >> > associated to a measure, not to a single note!
> > >> > 
> > >> > I also wonder if it is possible to hide (white out) empty
> > >(skipped)> > bars.
> > >> > 
> > >> > version: 2.5.18
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The \mark command only prints above the top stave in the system.
> > > (which is right for rehearsal marks).
> > 
> > True! Unless you move the Mark_engraver from the Score context to
> > the Staff context.
> 
> ..which means that I can't put rehearsalmarks above the top staff. =)
> It would be nice with a "pseudo" object: \StartOfBar which you could
> attach markup to as usual:
> 
>     \StartOfBar ^\markup \italic "non vibrato"
> 
Isn't it possible for each staff to have its own Mark_engraver? Would
this solve the problem?

/Bernard