Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-06 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear Joram, Thank you for your help. I had already tried \concat { "5" \super "ths" } but it did not work. I see now that this code must be outside the pair of quotemarks containing the "normal" text, a condition I wasn't aware of. I'm glad you also pointed out the possibilities to fine-tune t

Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-06 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear Abraham, Thank you for your advice, which did help. I had already tried \concat { a \super b }, but it did not work because, as I see now, I had just inserted it into the text instead of placing it outside the pair of quotation marks. I'm glad you also pointed out the possibilities to fine

Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-06 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Harm, Thank you very much for your help. Ref.: "You could have added what exactly you tried already.” : It did not work, probably because I just inserted it into the text instead of placing it outside the pair of quotation marks. I was not aware of that condition. I'm glad you also pointed o

Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-05 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-02-05 19:53 GMT+01:00 Robert Blackstone : > Dear list > > The LilyPond-project that I'm presently working on deals with some 40 songs, > voice and a keyboard instrument, with comments and explanations underneath > each score, some with small musical examples. > In these comments I would like

Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-05 Thread Noeck
Dear Robert, your example could be much more minimal without the music and just with a markup command. What you are looking for is \super but you also need \concat to avoid space between the '5' and the 'ths' or a full stop. So this could help you: \markup \line { "Sometimes hidden parallel"

Re: Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-05 Thread Abraham Lee
Robert, On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Robert Blackstone < blackstone.rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list > > The LilyPond-project that I'm presently working on deals with some 40 > songs, voice and a keyboard instrument, with comments and explanations > underneath each score, some with small

Superscript in \markup environment

2016-02-05 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear list The LilyPond-project that I'm presently working on deals with some 40 songs, voice and a keyboard instrument, with comments and explanations underneath each score, some with small musical examples. In these comments I would like interval names like 5ths and 8ves to be written with "th