Dear all, in a recent question on this list [1] about \super in markup text, all three replies suggested to tweak the vertical position of superscripts by hand because the default is obviously too high.
I compared the Lilypond result of \super and \sub to the equivalents in LaTeX (because who would doubt that LaTeX is wrong in such a question) and indeed LaTeX makes a different choice when using \textsuperscript and \textsubscript. Of course LilyPond's emphasis is on beautiful music notation, but I think also text parts of scores should look good. Therefore, I would like to propose the following change to scm/define-markup-commands.scm: - raise the superscript by 0.8 instead of 1.0 - lower the subscript by -0.4 instead of -0.75 The result can be seen in the attached figures: - latex.png shows how LaTeX would format it - lily.png shows the LilyPond default (Lilypond) and the above proposal If you agree and there are chances to get this into LilyPond, I would prepare a patch. Best, Joram [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00113.html
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