Thank you so much. However, because "rotate" performs its rotation around the center of the character I need to make a small adjustment. There is a "rotation" routine allowing rotation at an arbitrary point but it appears to be solely for music not markups. I tried the following change using "translate" but there is no "translate-guide" routine, which was a guess on my part after looking at the way "rotate" is used. I have attempted to locate a list of these Scheme routines but been unsuccessful. I even downloaded the GIT source for lilypond and tried to find them there. So I have done due diligence, but I may have done the wrong things. Can someone show me how to make translate move the character? I can do the fine tuning of the position after that.
#(define (gx rotate-guide fingering) (let ((music (make-music 'FingeringEvent)) (finger (ly:music-property fingering 'digit)) (guide-char #x2013)) (set! (ly:music-property music 'tweaks) (acons 'stencil (lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (make-concat-markup (list (make-rotate-markup rotate-guide (make-char-markup guide-char)) ;; (make-translate-markup translate-guide '(2 . 3) (make-rotate-markup rotate-guide (make-char-markup guide-char))) (number->string finger))))) (ly:music-property music 'tweaks))) music)) ============================================================================== You might consider upgrading to one of the current development versions if you're interested in writing functions like this. There is now quite a bit more flexibility and power to music functions (thanks to David Kastrup). I am using GNU LilyPond 2.15.41 even though my files still have "\version "2.14.2"" at the start. Again, I spent some time trying to locate scheme music functions but was wholly unsuccessful. But I may just be searching with the wrong magic phrases. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user