Re: text in staff and markup text font=addlyric font

2010-03-11 Thread Robin Bannister
Jay Hamilton wrote: not exactly sure what that means in this case There is an example at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=258 This sidesteps the question of horizontal space by setting ragged-right. Do you already have enough horizontal space for the text? Or do you expect Lilypond to ma

Re: text in staff and markup text font=addlyric font

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Hamilton
Ok, not exactly sure what that means in this case but looking through the manual I'm not able to understand the numeric values in terms of what they do/mean. So where's a good explanation? Also it sounds like (I hope I'm wrong) that you have to use the \override etc and extra-offset for each symbo

Re: text in staff and markup text font=addlyric font

2010-03-07 Thread James Bailey
As I understand it, these kinds of things only work with extra-offset. On 07.03.2010, at 22:41, Jay Hamilton wrote: version 2.12.2 Subject: text in staff I want to place test inside the staff lines from the manual it looks like I should use some form of \once \override TextScript #'script-prio

Re: text in staff

2005-08-22 Thread lfanele
thanks everybody, the #'extra-offset command worked fine for me. stephen Am 22.08.2005 um 09:50 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: If you want to move something vertically, it's almost always better to use the padding property instead of extra-offset. The reason is that if you set padding, then LilyPond

Re: text in staff

2005-08-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want to move something vertically, it's almost always better to use the padding property instead of extra-offset. The reason is that if you set padding, then LilyPond will realize that you have moved something and migh for example add some extra spacing between the staves to avoid that your

Re: text in staff

2005-08-21 Thread Kris Shaffer
The markup command is the correct way to do it, but instead of \lower, use the "extra-offset" property. For example, \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -10) c4^"markup" will create a quarter note C, place the word "markup" above the staff, and the extra-offse

Re: text in staff

2005-08-21 Thread Doug Asherman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everybody, > getting quite fluent in lilypond by now. it's even more fun using it, > if you get to know the app better. > > one thing i'm still struggling with: how to put text in the staff? > the picture below has been done with photoshop (not the most elegant > wa