Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-08 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Try \markup{ \override #'(word-space . 0) \line{\bold {t} ime }} Maybe we should add a new markup command to concatenate a number of markups in this way. I second this suggestion; it's used commonly enough. - Graham ___ lily

RE: Midstring markup

2006-09-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Anthony Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 3. From what I can make out, lilypond's markup language can only handle WORDS, not TEXT (as has been evidenced by people complaining that lilypond strips out any attempts at spacing. It's all very well having to place each word individually, but wh

RE: Midstring markup

2006-09-08 Thread Anthony Youngman
change the font size?) Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Han-Wen Nienhuys Sent: 08 September 2006 14:34 To: Mats Bengtsson Cc: Trevor Bača; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Midstring markup Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > &g

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Pango actually supports a simple markup scheme of itself. It would be nice if there were a \pangoMarkup #"bold" command that uses Pango's facilities to format text. I don't see the point of introducing yet another "programming language" and s

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Pango actually supports a simple markup scheme of itself. It would be nice if there were a \pangoMarkup #"bold" command that uses Pango's facilities to format text. I don't see the point of introducing yet another "programming language" and syntax to use in .ly fil

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Try \markup{ \override #'(word-space . 0) \line{\bold {t} ime }} Maybe we should add a new markup command to concatenate a number of markups in this way. Pango actually supports a simple markup scheme of itself. It would be nice if there were a \pangoMarkup #"bold"

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
or Bača" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: Midstring markup > Hi, > > I know this has been covered somewhere, but I'm having trouble finding > the thread ... > > What's the best way to

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Trevor Bača
to play with the word separation, and things get far uglier - Original Message - From: "Trevor Bača" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lilypond-user" Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: Midstring markup > Hi, > > I know this has been covere

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Stewart Holmes
; Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: Midstring markup Hi, I know this has been covered somewhere, but I'm having trouble finding the thread ... What's the best way to markup a single character, or a substring of characters, inside of some larger string? I'd lik

Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Trevor Bača
Hi, I know this has been covered somewhere, but I'm having trouble finding the thread ... What's the best way to markup a single character, or a substring of characters, inside of some larger string? I'd like, for example, to say \markup { \bold {t} ime } and wind up with a bold character t wit