Is that them em or en dash? On a macintosh, I would just type them directly,
either – or —, if you absolutely have to use the unicode, I would do it:
\version "2.12.3"
shiftTwo=\markup \finger "–2"
shiftThree = \markup \concat {\char ##x2012 3}
{ a4-\shiftTwo g-\shiftThree}
On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Antheo wrote:
>
>
> James Bailey-4 wrote:
>>
>> I realize it's not exactly what you want, but what about:
>> \version "2.12.3"
>> shiftTwo=\markup \finger "-2"
>> { c''4-\shiftTwo }
>>
>
> Yep not exactly but could be a workaround. I'd like to replace the short "-"
> by a middle one like with the character \char ##x2012. I tried this
> shiftIV=\markup \finger "\char ##x2012 4"
> but that printed the command and not the character.
>
> Any idea how to make the function more generic? I tried
>
>
> sf = #(define-music-function (parser location finger) ( integer? ) #{
> \mark \markup { \tiny \concat {\char ##x2012 $finger }}
> #})
>
> {c''4^\sf#3 d''4^\sf#4}
>
> but it failed.
>
>
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