Re: Improving this "Markup anywhere" snippet

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Colin,

> I wonder whether any of you Lilypond wizards could help me work out 
> how to improve my Lilypond scores.
> Most of my embellishments come from reading/copying bits of code from 
> this forum - but I admit I don't always fully understand why things 
> work. However, I have this 'snippet' which I call "Markup anywhere", 
> which basically allows a markup to be added without disrupting any of 
> the positioning of other items.
> What I would like is to know how it can be improved - so that I can 
> use it without copying large chunks of code whenever it is required. 
> The amended markup is demonstrated here:-
>
> c1^\markup { \null \with-dimensions #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 0)
>                 \translate #'(-10.0 . -4.0)
>                 \override #'(font-name ."Tahoma bold italic")
>                 \fontsize #-2 \with-color #(x11-color "LimeGreen")
>                 \box \box \whiteout
>               "Put your text here"
>
> Could this be streamlined and generalised somehow, and yet still be 
> able to accept various variable to alter position/colour etc
\null \with-dimensions ... seems strange: \null produces an empty 
markup, and _then_ the actual command begins. So you can simplify to

\markup \with-dimensions-from \null \translate .....

> Just as a side note - why does the \whiteout not work perfectly?

For the whiteout, try specyfing

\override TextScript.layer = 1000

in the music or in the \layout { } block to make sure that text scripts 
are put in the foreground and do not lie under other layout objects.

Does this help already?

Lukas