Re: Horizontal alignment of MultiMeasureRest markups

[Peter Crighton]

Good question. I think I may have just mixed those two up …

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2013/12/18 David Kastrup <address@hidden>

Peter Crighton <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello List,
>
> why is it not possible to horizontal align markups attached to a
> MultiMeasureRest in the positive direction (i.e. left)?
>
> I expected this code to work, but the \halign seems to be ignored (#-5
> would work):
>
>
> \version "2.17.29"
>
> \new Staff <<
>     {
>       R1^\markup { \null \halign #5 "text" }
>     }
>>>

Why don't you use \hspace here?  \halign seems rather weird.

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David Kastrup