Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread stk
Well, from your four examples, and from Han-Wen's remarks, it looks like you will have to give up on using wordwrap: I think you will have to produce each line of the text individually, given LilyPond's current limitations. If you define the lines in variables, La = "this string is the first li

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Since you are the only one in the discussion who knows Hebrew, maybe you can enlighten the rest of us what happens and what you would like to happen, for example using some examples similar to examples that Tom sent earlier. the problem seems to be that \markup commands ar

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Mehl
Well I have to admit I only tried two of the examples \markup { this is normal text \override #'(linewidth . 60) \wordwrap { "ABC cde" } works and gives me edc CBA but for a long lines it keeps going off the page (no word wrap?)I gather the override linewidth should be set to some

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Mehl
I was a busy beaver look at my other post for more specifics on this. I admit that I didn't test all the possibilites till now but I hope it is clear enough now. :) Aaron --- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you are the only one in the discussion who > knows Hebrew, > maybe you

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Mehl
> > > but now why can't I use word wrap and justify? > > I don't usually read this list on the Web, I just > read the mail that > the list sends me -- and at this point I have lost > track of your > original post to the list. > fine I use mutt and use yahoo only for lilypond because my private

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Mehl
> Did you try \justify-string or \wordwrap-string? > See the example called markup-word-wrap.ly in the > Regression > Test document for version 2.7 to see what the > different > word wrapping commands do (though not for Hebrew). Thats where I got the examples I used from So far they don't work

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Since you are the only one in the discussion who knows Hebrew, maybe you can enlighten the rest of us what happens and what you would like to happen, for example using some examples similar to examples that Tom sent earlier. /Mats Aaron Mehl wrote: Did you try \justify-string or \wordwrap

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you try \justify-string or \wordwrap-string? See the example called markup-word-wrap.ly in the Regression Test document for version 2.7 to see what the different word wrapping commands do (though not for Hebrew). /Mats Aaron Mehl wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Mehl wrote:

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-23 Thread stk
> but now why can't I use word wrap and justify? I don't usually read this list on the Web, I just read the mail that the list sends me -- and at this point I have lost track of your original post to the list. My mail client is plain-text only (Latin-1). Can you post a message containing a \mar

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aaron Mehl wrote: > > > but actually for each word the letters are in the > > correct order but the words themselves go left to > > right instead of right to left. > > With automatic text reversal, I would expect > \markup { ONE TWO THREE } > to produce

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread stk
Aaron Mehl wrote: > but actually for each word the letters are in the > correct order but the words themselves go left to > right instead of right to left. With automatic text reversal, I would expect \markup { ONE TWO THREE } to produce ENO OWT EERHT But, with a pair of quot

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
> the text layout is handled by Pango, so I guess it's > a matter of passing > the right options to Pango. I can look into it as a > sponsored feature, > if you like. yes how much would it cost? Aarn but actually for each word the letters are in the correct order but the words themselves go le

Re: text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi again, I got the markup of text below the staff to work, but the hebrew is backwards, ouch. Is there a specific command I must type to get the text to bidi correctly? Hi, the text layout is handled by Pango, so I guess it's a matter of passing the right options to Pango

text below staff ouch!

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi again, I got the markup of text below the staff to work, but the hebrew is backwards, ouch. Is there a specific command I must type to get the text to bidi correctly? Thanks Aaron If an example is needed I can send a png, I am not sure how large attachments the list permits so I am leaving i