Hi Craig,

Am 06.02.2015 um 20:28 schrieb Craig Dabelstein:
Hi Urs,

I worked out one of the problems.

Thank you for testing. This at least shows me where the problem is - unfortunately an area I'm quite unfamiliar with ...


If there is only one lilyglyph in the message, surrounding it with the "@"-s is fine.
This works:
    message = "Is this @\lilyDynamics{p}@ necessary?"


If there are two lilyglyphs in the one annotate message the "@"-s need to surround both.
This doesn't work:
message = "Should this @\crescHairpin{}@ go all the way to the @\lilyDynamics{ff}@?"

This does work:
message = "Should this @\crescHairpin{} go all the way to the \lilyDynamics{ff}@?"

OK, the problem seems to be that the regular expression that matches "any text between two "@" characters" doesn't correctly work when there are more than two such characters in the string. I would have to sort out how that regular expression can match these pairs independently.

Your solution just circumvents the problem but is actually not acceptable (means: it is not acceptable that such a workaround is necessary) because that means that *anything* between the two LaTeX expressions will be also parsed literally, which may be OK in cases but may also cause trouble in other cases, e.g.

message = "The @\crotchet is wrong (see #12), but the \quaver@ should be fine."

Here I'd want the # to be printed (referencing an issue in the tracker), but as it is it would be printed literally instead of the escaped version \#.

But this makes me think if that hybrid approach of possibly mixed plain text and LaTeX code is really a good idea after all. Maybe it would be better to decide about a format for messages and simply treat the message consequently. That would mean there should be a global option saying "message body is entered as plaintext|latex|markdown|html" (as a project wide preference) and/or there can be a local property in an annotation saying
  message-format = "latex"

What do you think?

Urs


I still can't get italic text to work.
@\textit{cresc.}@

Craig





On Fri Feb 06 2015 at 10:34:48 AM Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org <mailto:u...@openlilylib.org>> wrote:


    Am 06.02.2015 um 01:32 schrieb Craig Dabelstein:
    Thanks Urs,

    I had to try many different combinations, and don't ask me why,
    but this is what I eventually found worked:

    @\crescHairpin{}

    and

    \lilyDynamics{ff}@

    Why one of them needs the "@" symbol at the start and the other
    at the end I don't know.

    I still can't get any variation of @\textit{dim.}@ to work.

    Craig

    Hm, well, that's definitely not what it should be like.
    I'll try to have a look ASAP.


    Urs




    On Fri Feb 06 2015 at 8:37:56 AM Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org
    <mailto:u...@openlilylib.org>> wrote:


        Am 05.02.2015 um 23:19 schrieb Craig Dabelstein:
        Hi all,

        I'm having some trouble getting the Lilyglyphs to display in
        Latex after exporting the annotate inp file.

        Do you put the Lilyglyphs code into the annotate message
        section?
        e.g.
        message = "This \decrescHairpin\ is very long. Would a
        \textit{dim.} be better?"

        or

        message = "Should this \crescHairpin\ go all the way to the
        \ff?"

        Many thanks,

        You can put arbitrary LaTeX code - and that includes
        lilyglyphs - in a message section, but you have to enclose
        everything in "@"-s.
        Normally LaTeX special characters are escaped so that they
        _print_ as desired, so
        message = "Here you should use \crescHairpin"
        would be translated to the following in the .inp file:
        {Here you should use \textbackslash crescHairpin}

        I think your above examples should be written as:

        message = "This @\decrescHairpin@ is very long. Would a
        @\textit{dim.}@ be better?"
        message = "Should this @\crescHairpin@ go all the way to the
        @\lilyDynamics{ff}@"

        HTH
        Urs


        Craig



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