Re: flat symbol in text?

2023-01-06 Thread Matthew Pierce
ypond-user-bounces+piercello=hotmail@gnu.org on behalf of David Kastrup Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 11:52 AM To: Matthew Pierce Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: flat symbol in text? Matthew Pierce writes: > How might I display the text "Bb Major," but with th

Re: flat symbol in text?

2023-01-03 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Pierce writes: > How might I display the text "Bb Major," but with the flat symbol > instead of a lower case "b"? I'd just use Unicode, namely "B♭ Major". If you don't get this via input methods (on my keyboard, it's "[Compose key] # b"), you can copy from a browser with Unicode tables

Re: flat symbol in text?

2023-01-03 Thread Matthew Pierce
That worked, thank you! I will play with the syntax and learn from it. -M From: Rip _Mus Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 9:15 AM To: Matthew Pierce Cc: Jean Abou Samra ; Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: flat symbol in text? Hello, try instrumentName

Re: flat symbol in text?

2023-01-03 Thread Rip _Mus
t;} > > My apologies for a badly worded question. Is there a way to insert the > flat symbol into an instrument name? > -- > *From:* Jean Abou Samra > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 3, 2023 8:53 AM > *To:* Matthew Pierce ; lilypond-user@gnu.org < > lilypond

Re: flat symbol in text?

2023-01-03 Thread Matthew Pierce
nt: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 8:53 AM To: Matthew Pierce ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: flat symbol in text? > Le 03/01/2023 15:45 CET, Matthew Pierce a écrit : > > > How might I display the text "Bb Major," but with the flat symbol instead of > a lower case &q

Re: flat symbol in text?

2023-01-03 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 03/01/2023 15:45 CET, Matthew Pierce a écrit : > > > How might I display the text "Bb Major," but with the flat symbol instead of > a lower case "b"? You will find \flat in the index. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/lilypond-index.html Best, Jean

flat symbol in text?

2023-01-03 Thread Matthew Pierce
How might I display the text "Bb Major," but with the flat symbol instead of a lower case "b"? Thanks to all, Matt

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-19 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 19 oct. 2011, at 01:03, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 18 October 2011 10:06, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. Neither way I have

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-19 Thread Bill Mooney
Hi Nick, After a bit of tinkering, and using the Character Map application (Ubuntu10.04)(but I would think it would also work in Windows) to ' Copy' the character 'music flat sign' (which has the same code as you used - funnily enough! :) ) I think the following provide what I think is a

Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Nick Payne
I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. Neither way I have found of doing this is satisfactory, as shown below. The first leads to an oversized flat symbol that is too close to the

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Nick, my markup code to place the flat sign is slightly different - I would say, its a matter of taste. But you might define a markup command, so that you don't need to write all that bold-lower-translate-wahtelse-stuff: --snip-- #(define-markup-command (flatglyph layout props)()

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
... and of course, you can experiment with the \general-align markup command: title = \markup { \concat { \general-align #Y #UP { E \hspace #0.2 \smaller \smaller \smaller \smaller \flat } } } Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 18.10.2011 11:39, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Nick, my markup code to

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 October 2011 10:06, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. Neither way I have found of doing this is satisfactory, as shown below.