Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-19 Thread Bill Mooney
Hi Nick, After a bit of tinkering, and using the Character Map application (Ubuntu10.04)(but I would think it would also work in Windows) to ' Copy' the character 'music flat sign' (which has the same code as you used - funnily enough! :) ) I think the following provide what I think is a visual

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-19 Thread Jean-Alexis Montignies
On 19 oct. 2011, at 01:03, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On 18 October 2011 10:06, Nick Payne wrote: >> I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate >> the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. >> Neither way I have found of doing this is s

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 18 October 2011 10:06, Nick Payne wrote: > I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate > the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. > Neither way I have found of doing this is satisfactory, as shown below. The > first leads to an ove

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
... and of course, you can experiment with the \general-align markup command: title = \markup { \concat { \general-align #Y #UP { E \hspace #0.2 \smaller \smaller \smaller \smaller \flat } } } Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 18.10.2011 11:39, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Hello Nick, my markup code to pla

Re: Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Nick, my markup code to place the flat sign is slightly different - I would say, its a matter of taste. But you might define a markup command, so that you don't need to write all that bold-lower-translate-wahtelse-stuff: --snip-- #(define-markup-command (flatglyph layout props)() (inte

Using flat symbol in text

2011-10-18 Thread Nick Payne
I occasionally want to use the flat symbol in a header, usually to indicate the original key when a piece has been transposed from the original key. Neither way I have found of doing this is satisfactory, as shown below. The first leads to an oversized flat symbol that is too close to the prece