Re: Some newbie troubles, especially with text

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Stephen <address@hidden>:
> That still works for "Fine" and "D.C. al fine" which must be 
> right-aligned with the barline, but is usually on the topmost stave. 
> Bottom line is we have a system that works for them, considering how 
> flexible it needs to be anyway to cover all cases. The only 
> generalization that we could make would be a version of \mark that 
> right-aligns, allows markup of the last bar of a score, and uses a 
> smaller font size by default (with a slightly smaller padding as 
> well) than \mark uses.

Someone else probably wants a version that left aligns and uses
bold font, not to mention ... Therefore, it's possible for you to make 
your own favourite command, see Sect, "11.1.3 Extending music syntax" 
and "11.1.6 Using LilyPond syntax inside Scheme" in the manual if you 
want a command that
takes a text argument. Or even simpler, add a definition like
the following in a file myfavouritemacros.ly:

DS = {
\once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'break-visibility = 
#begin-of-line-invisible
\once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #right
\mark \markup{\smaller "D.S. al Fine" }
}

Then, you can \include it wherever in whatever .ly file you have
and use it like c1 \DS \bar "|."

 /Mats