Many thanks for your prompt and helpful reply -- the workaround worked perfectly (once I of course changed the \smallCaps in my original question to \caps).
Jay -----Original Message----- From: lilypond-user <lilypond-user-bounces+type=projectivespace....@gnu.org> On Behalf Of Jean Abou Samra Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:49 AM To: t...@projectivespace.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: small caps in title Le 19/10/2021 à 19:42, t...@projectivespace.com a écrit : > I have a quick question about formatting a title in small caps in Lilypond. > Although I can format scoreTitleMarkup with the usual \bold and \italic for > markups, I am having trouble getting \smallCaps (or \caps) to work with a > title retrieved by \fromproperty. The \smallCaps works fine elsewhere in the > scoreTitleMarkup, but not on the title that I am retrieving with > \fromproperty #'header:title. A tiny example is below (between the equals > signs). I appreciate any assistance that anyone can provide. > > I do know that I could provide the \smallCaps markup when I set the title, > but I may want to display the title in different ways in different parts of > the score, so I don't want to hard code the formatting into its definition. > > And since this is my first post to the list, I'd also like to thank everyone > on the Lilypond team for producing and maintaining such an amazing scoring > tool, and also those helpful people who reply to people's questions on the > lilypond-user list. I have learned a lot from reading the emails that I get > on this list! > > Thanks, > > > Jay > > ========================= > \version "2.22.1" > > \paper { > scoreTitleMarkup = \markup { > \fill-line { \bold \italic \fromproperty #'header:title > \smallCaps "Small caps work" > \smallCaps \fromproperty #'header:title > } > } > } > > \header { title = "The title" } > > { a b c } > =========================== Hi Jay, This is an old bug; try the workaround proposed at https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1482#note_339750124 Kind regards, Jean