Re: New user question - relative bowing and fingering marks

2009-09-08 Thread John Ervin
> > Jan, > Fair enough the scans show your point, though there is other music I know that has the asymmetric glyph for upbow and I do think the glyph I'm proposing better matches the stroking on the downbow. That matter of taste aside, the problem I'm having - while trying to typeset chamber musi

Re: New user question - relative bowing and fingering marks

2009-09-07 Thread John Ervin
Trevor, Thanks that solved it. I just added (script-priority . 2000) to upbow and downbow in script.scm (which is in \usr\share\lilypond\current\scm in my Windows installation). This now gives the typical behavior, but my .ly files won't be as portable as they could be. Now if someone just knew

New user question - relative bowing and fingering marks

2009-09-07 Thread John Ervin
Hello, When writing bowing marks on notes that have fingering with Lilypond, I'm always getting the bowing mark close to the note and the fingering above that bow mark. Using: d''4-2\upbow or say d''4^\markup { \finger 2}\upbow This is rather atypical in my experience. Is there a way to have t