Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-25 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 25.03.2016 02:48, Daniel Birns wrote: Y’all, I had trouble with this in lilypond. Sure enough, if you look at the bottom, the email processing mangled the source. The last two << characters are replaced with something else. It’s rather the >>, isn’t it? > characters are used for

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Daniel Birns
Y’all, I had trouble with this in lilypond. Sure enough, if you look at the bottom, the email processing mangled the source. The last two << characters are replaced with something else. The test_whiteout.ly file worked fine, and then I discovered what happened. I’ll have to look out for that

RE: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
ct: Re: How to add padding around whiteout text On 24.03.2016 19:25, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: > Could someone please explain how to add some padding around the text > or point me to the location in the documentation or mail archive that > deals with this issue? Just use: \markup

RE: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Subject: Re: How to add padding around whiteout text On 24.03.2016 20:26, Daniel Birns wrote: > I downloaded 2.19.38 and got this. Is this a new problem with .38? Do > you, Joseph, see this? > > dant.ly <http://dant.ly>:35:1: error: syntax error, unexpected '}' This is a very b

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 20:26, Daniel Birns wrote: I downloaded 2.19.38 and got this. Is this a new problem with .38? Do you, Joseph, see this? dant.ly :35:1: error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}' This is a very basic LilyPond syntax error, so it certainly doesn’t have anything to do

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.03.2016 19:25, Joseph N. Srednicki wrote: Could someone please explain how to add some padding around the text or point me to the location in the documentation or mail archive that deals with this issue? Just use: \markup { \override #'(thickness . 5) \whiteout { \fontsize #-3 \line

RE: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
d-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to add padding around whiteout text I downloaded 2.19.38 and got this. Is this a new problem with .38? Do you, Joseph, see this? dant.ly <http://dant.ly> :35:1: error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}' On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Joseph N. Srednic

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Daniel Birns
I downloaded 2.19.38 and got this. Is this a new problem with .38? Do you, Joseph, see this? dant.ly:35:1: error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}' On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Joseph N. Srednicki > wrote: Hello: Please see

Re: How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.03.2016 um 19:25 schrieb Joseph N. Srednicki: Could someone please explain how to add some padding around the text or point me to the location in the documentation or mail archive that deals with this issue? Whiteout has been improved in version 2.19, you can now override the

How to add padding around whiteout text

2016-03-24 Thread Joseph N. Srednicki
Hello: Please see the following code example. In this example, I used the \whiteout command so that my markup looks like it interrupts or a layer on top of the spanner bar. Could someone please explain how to add some padding around the text or point me to the location in the documentation