Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-05-23 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
Dear friends, Since I too need a "long fermata" to place between two (or more) notes, I've searched around for a solution and I found this thread. I now managed to draw the symbol in postscript. This is my first attempt to use postscript: I can imagine this will be very far to be perfect! Ho

Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-02-07 Thread luciosilla
yes, that's not a bad idea. Can you tell me how to do that? lucio Tom Dickson-3 wrote: > > Would it be possible to modify or use slurs and then manually position a > dot near it? > > -tom > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.or

Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-02-06 Thread Tom Dickson
Would it be possible to modify or use slurs and then manually position a dot near it? -tom ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-02-06 Thread Nick Payne
Well, the fix to that one was easy - don't use both glyphshow and show in the PostScript: \version "2.13.12" \relative c' { c c^\markup { \postscript #"/Emmentaler-20 findfont 4 scalefont setfont 2.5 1 scale /scripts.ufermata glyphshow" } } Nick On 07/02/10 17:34, Nick Payne

Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-02-06 Thread Nick Payne
Here's a stretched out fermata using PostScript: \version "2.13.12" \relative c' { c c^\markup { \postscript #"/Emmentaler-20 findfont 4 scalefont setfont 2.5 1 scale /scripts.ufermata glyphshow show" } } Unfortunately, although Lilypond generates the ps file without error, G

Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-02-06 Thread luciosilla
thanks for your help, I tried your trick, but it seams to only "blow up" the fermata mark. I was was hoping for something more adequate, like stretching the fermata mark or somehow expanding it, I don't know. But thanks once again. Lucio -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/

Re: "Long" fermata above two notes

2010-02-06 Thread Éric Bouvéron
You may try a trick, to put the fermatta between the two notes, using; tweak #'extra-offset #'(-x . y) and a markup for the glyph fermata %%- %%definition double fermata up & down dlbupfermata = ^\markup { \huge \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } dldwnbfermata = _\mark