I get an error with \vspace: error: unknown escaped string: `\vspace'
Are we both using 2.12? Thanks, Josiah On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Hi Josiah, > >> Using 2.12.2, I'm wondering if I can include some sort of sectional >> titling information above a tempo marking, ideally also with a markup >> below the tempo indication, something like: >> >> Henry in the Store >> Superfast (4=198) >> (muted) >> [staff with music] > > I happen to be doing *precisely* that kind of thing in my current quartet > commission -- here's one example: > > \tempo 4 = 69 \tempo \markup \dir-column > { > \concat { "Tenderly, with some rubato (" \fontsize #-2 \general-align #Y > #DOWN \note #"4" #1 " = ca. 66-72)" } > "VARIATION I" > \vspace #0 > \combine \fontsize #2 "PART ONE" \lower #0.7 \override #'(thickness . 1.5) > \draw-line #'(16 . 0) > } > > Notes: > 1. \vspace is the standard (Nicholas's?) function for inserting vertical > space; > 2. the last element has a manually-built underline (because we don't > currently have control over all the properties of Lilypond's \underline); and, > 3. there are *two* \tempo commands (one to set the actual tempo, one to > generate the markup). > > Hope this helps! > Kieren. > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user