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Re: Introduction, and question on symbol placement
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Peekay Ex |
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Re: Introduction, and question on symbol placement |
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Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:48:03 +0000 |
Hello,
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:24 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> Wow, what great software. I've been looking for something
> like this, and am very glad to have found it.
>
> I use lilypond to write lead sheets. I have a chart with a
> coda jump that occurs right after a second ending. The coda
> symbol gets placed quite high above the staff, high enough to
> clear the second ending.
>
> Is there a way I can tweak the placement of the Coda symbol
> to bring it a little (or a lot) lower, and hopefully cause
> the software to spread the horizontal spacing a little to
> prevent crowding? Even if it creates crowding, I'd like to
> learn how to tweak the 'altitude' of the Coda sign.
There are a few ways you could do this I guess.
Best place to start is here
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/vertical-collision-avoidance
Regards
James
PS also take a look here
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/html/whatsthis.html
This often contains useful tweaks and hacks - although this is based
on the last 2.12 stable version the syntax hasn't changed *that* much
that most will still work with 2.14.x