Re: Automatically centering markup along an arrow

[Sam Bivens]

Hi Harm,

Yes, I see now that I was unclear. I'd like the X to be horizontally centered between the endpoints, but not vertically centered. The markup should always be outside the slur. And yes, I would prefer this to be outside the staff; it's for teaching purposes, so I want to make the text clear and unencumbered by the staff lines.

Thanks,

Sam

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 6:57 PM Thomas Morley <thomasmorley65@gmail.com> wrote:

Am Sa., 18. Juli 2020 um 20:34 Uhr schrieb Sam Bivens <sambivens@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
> I've recently discovered Harm's terrific arrow markup; see attached. Is there any way to automatically center new markup along these paths instead of manually tweaking an halign for every one?
> In other words, the "X" in the attached MWE should automatically center itself between the endpoints of the slur/arrow. How might this be possible?
> Thanks!
> Sam

Hi Sam,

meanwhile Aaron heavily improved the coding:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-04/msg00240.html
Thanks again!

Though, it's not clear to me what you aim at:
(1) Do you really _need_ the outside-staff functionality?
(2) You wrote "the "X" in the attached MWE should automatically center
itself between the endpoints of the slur/arrow."
Alas this would look like the attached image.
Or should the added markup rather be (always?) outside the slur?

Cheers,
  Harm

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