Graham Percival wrote:
Dan Eble wrote:
% Note the missing flat in the markup.
% Should \flat use the flat sign from Lilypond's font,
% or is this something I'm not supposed to want to do?
I'd call it a missing warning. Try this:
bf1^\markup{
\override #'(font-name . "Courier")
Dan Eble wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but because the example is intentionally simple,
the simple workaround is unsatisfying. Imagine this fragment as part of
bookTitleMarkup in an include file:
Why not define
myFlat = \markup{ \normal-text { \flat } }
and then do
\header = {
instrument =
Dan Eble wrote:
% Note the missing flat in the markup.
% Should \flat use the flat sign from Lilypond's font,
% or is this something I'm not supposed to want to do?
I'd call it a missing warning. Try this:
bf1^\markup{
\override #'(font-name . "Courier")
{ Ceci n'est pas une B
When you explicitly specify the font-name property, you override
normal font selection mechanism. For example, the markup command
\flat internally uses the property font-encoding to select the music font,
but as you have noticed, this doesn't work if the font-name property
has been explicitly sp
% Note the missing flat in the markup.
% Should \flat use the flat sign from Lilypond's font,
% or is this something I'm not supposed to want to do?
\version "2.10.19"
\include "english.ly"
\score {
\relative c'' {
bf1^\markup{
\override #'(font-name . "Courier")
{ Ceci n'est pas
