Re: Score, DS and Coda Question

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-09-30 11:22 am, Greg Lindstrom wrote:
> I've engraved a score which includes a "D.S." and Coda. I had no 
> problem
> adding the Text (D.S. al Coda") and signs, but currently there is no 
> break
> in the score between after the measure to go back to the sign and the
> actual coda. In other works I've seen, the Coda is "broken off" from 
> the
> main score to make it stand out.
>
> I have ideas on how to do this but thought I'd ask because I went to 
> the
> trouble to manually combine two parts in the score only to later 
> discover
> the \partCombine feature. Before I try to "tong and hammer" this, is 
> there
> a better (easier, "lilypond") way?

Manually inserting a \break might suffice.  That's all I do in my 
scores.

If you need more than that, the LSR [1] offers several ways to handle 
coda positioning.  \pseudoIndent [2] is an especially powerful tool.

[1]: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=coda
[2]: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1098


-- Aaron Hill