Errr... because I don't know enough about Lilypond to distinguish between
an override and a tweak. I just happened to have found a Lilypond score
(admittedly an old one) which uses overrides to place special symbols next
to notes, and I'm doing that because I can see that it works. But if
tweaking is the better option, I'll do that instead!
Thank you for the suggestion.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:08 PM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Alasdair McAndrew <amc...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In my attempt to typeset some early 18th century French music for viola
> da
> > gamba, I'm trying to keep to the original notation as closely as
> possible.
> > Thus I'm using a breath mark to indicate a trill, and a sans-serif x for
> a
> > mordent. So for example, I have
> >
> > mx = \markup {\teeny \sans x}
> >
> > But to put this symbol next to its note (where it belongs), I have to
> write
> > something like
> >
> > \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(1.5 . -1.5) f4.^\mx
> >
> > to ensure it goes in the right place. Is there any way of simplifying
> > this? Ideally, it'd be nice to be able to write something like
> >
> > f4.^{\mx 1.5 -1.5}
> >
> > and leave all the once override stuff out of the score itself. Or is
> there
> > another way of placing a symbol where I want it?
>
> Why wouldn't you use a tweak rather than an override?
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
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