Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Quoting Marcus Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
As an alternative to the second method -- and a perhaps more
conventional one, recommended by Kurt Stone -- niente can be notated
not with the dynamic letter "n" but with the italic "n." (this time
with a period). This should be possible to do now, but I can't figure
out how to switch off the boldface:
n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:text #:italic "n." ) ) % This
makes the text bold-italic.
n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:text "n." ) ) % In fact, even this
makes it bold-italic, as if that's the default text font style. Why?
And how to switch it off?
The simple reason is that dynamics by default have bold face turned on.
For situations like these, where you want tobe sure
to first reset all font related properties before starting applying your
own preferences, the markup command \normal-text was introduced
in version 2.7. So you should be able to do something like
n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:normal-text #:italic "n." ) )
Ah, yes, that works. The last thing I saw on in the email list archives
about it was a comment, by you, I think, that a command like \normal-text
would be useful (it presumably hadn't been implemented at the time).
Another way to do it, I've found, is...
n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:text #:medium #:italic "n.") )
...where #:medium is the regular (not-bold) weight of the font. (Likewise,
as Han-Wen pointed out on lilypond-devel, you can use #:upright to cancel
#:italic). I like your solution better, though - it could conceivably be
used where you're unsure of what the default font style is, and you just
want to clear all formatting and then specify only what you want.
Thanks for the tip.
Marcus
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