Re: Markup text to the left of first chord on ChordNames staff

[Jennifer Clark]

Jennifer Clark wrote:
> Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
> > This should be simple but I cant find an answer after exhaustive tries.
> >
> > How can I attach a bit of markup text immediately to the left of the 
> > first
> > chord in a ChordNames context staff?
> >
> >   
>
>
> Did anyone reply to this? I have a similar requirement as well, i.e. 
> if I put markup text above the staff, then lilypond will shift the 
> chords higher up to get out of its way, which is usually a good thing. 
> But there are a few times when I would prefer that the chords just 
> remained as they are.

Sorry for answering my own post, but I have found something that may be 
relevant; in the manual, it says you can move about items through use of 
the extra-offset, e.g. for markup text, which seems quite effective;

  \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-1.3 . 1.3)

Is it possible to apply the same thing to chords?

Jennifer