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
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. /Mats Trevor Bača wrote: Drat because the way I've got does indeed induce word separation (which is what I'm wanting to avoid) ... On

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Trevor Bača
Drat because the way I've got does indeed induce word separation (which is what I'm wanting to avoid) ... On 9/7/06, Stewart Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you have the easiest way there. You could do something like \markup { \bold T ime }, but then you'd have to play with the word s

Re: Midstring markup

2006-09-07 Thread Stewart Holmes
I think you have the easiest way there. You could do something like \markup { \bold T ime }, but then you'd have 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,