As it turns out, the "bc" text needs to be in lower case for \smallCaps to work.
title = \markup { 539. Threshing Floor of Aruna. 1100 \smallCaps bc }
it doesn't operate on text that's already capitalized.
Thanks for the help!
I never would have solved this by myself.
David Olson
Los Angeles
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Rehwinkel" <will...@williamrehwinkel.net>
To: "dadadharma @dslextreme.com" <dadadha...@dslextreme.com>, "lilypond-user"
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Sent: Friday, April 26, 2024 3:51:32 PM
Subject: Re: subscript in lyrics
Dear David,
You have to make the whole title a markup, in other words
title = \markup { 539. Threshing Floor of Aruna. 1100 \smallCaps BC }
-William
On 4/26/24 18:49, David Olson wrote:
> Thanks for drawing my attention to \markup
>
> Does \markup also work in the header?
>
> If I'm giving a historical date in the title and wish "BCE" to be smallCaps
>
> \header {
> title = "539. Threshing Floor of Aruna. 1100 \markup { \smallCaps { BCE }
> }."
> }
>
> Its seems that the \markup command is not being compiled.
> The PDF only prints the literal text of the command itself, including the
> curly brackets.
>
> Thanks again for your earlier help; it works beautifully.
>
> David Olson
> Los Angeles
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mskala" <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>
> To: "dadadharma @dslextreme.com" <dadadha...@dslextreme.com>
> Cc: "lilypond-user" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2024 5:59:03 PM
> Subject: Re: subscript in lyrics
>
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, David Olson wrote:
>
>> I'm a lyric poet writing songs about science.
>>
>> "CO2" is three syllables and often works better than "carbon dioxide".
>>
>> It's acceptable even if "2" doesn't appear as a subscript (one sees this
>> usage frequently), but subscript would be cool.
>>
>> A superscript option would be cool too.
>
> Easy enough to do using \markup and \sub, as in:
>
> <<
> \new Voice = melody { c'2 c'2 | c'4 bes4 f'2 | }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto melody { \lyricmode {
> "ooh!" "ooh!" C O \markup { \sub { "2" } "!" }
> } }
>>>
>
> There are a number of variations possible: \super for superscript,
> \normal-size-sub for subscript without making the font smaller (which
> might be easier to read even if it's not standard chemistry usage), and so
> on. In general, you can just break into \markup and use any of the usual
> markup commands. See "Formatting text" in the Notation manual:
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/formatting-text
>
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