Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

[Mark Knoop]

At 11:01 on 18 Nov 2022, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Jean,

>> Well, it's not too hard to implement them.

> In the hopes that it’s also not too hard for Super-Jean to implement
> anchors… ;)

> Is there a world in which one could write something like

> global = {
>   \anchor #'intro
>   s1*8
>   \anchor #'verse
>   s1*8
>   \anchor #'chorus
>   s1*8
> }

> and then

> chorusMusic = {
>   \gotoAnchor #'chorus
>   c'1
> }

> would make a whole note c' appear in the 17th measure of the score?

I have been using \alignTo for years for this purpose, I think originally from 
this thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-12/msg01296.html



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Mark Knoop