Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Shann
I wonder if there is a way of creating several pieces of markup text at a point in the music and tweaking their positions independently... \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 10) -\markup {pizz.} \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -10)-\markup {3} for example does give both

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: I wonder if there is a way of creating several pieces of markup text at a point in the music and tweaking their positions independently... \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 10) -\markup {pizz.} \override TextScript #'extra-offset =

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Eluze
Richard Shann wrote I wonder if there is a way of creating several pieces of markup text at a point in the music and tweaking their positions independently... \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 10) -\markup {pizz.} \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -10)-\markup {3}

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Gentry
Eluze Your solution produced this error - where did I go wrong? Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.16.0 [tweak.ly]... Processing `C:/Users/Peter/LilyPool/Trials/Testing/tweak.ly' Parsing... C:/Users/Peter/LilyPool/Trials/Testing/tweak.ly:5:17: error: wrong type for argument 2. Expecting symbol,

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread David Kastrup
Peter Gentry peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk writes: Eluze Your solution produced this error - where did I go wrong? Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.16.0 [tweak.ly]... ^^ Processing `C:/Users/Peter/LilyPool/Trials/Testing/tweak.ly' Parsing...

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Eluze
Peter Gentry wrote Eluze Your solution produced this error - where did I go wrong? Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.16.0 [tweak.ly]... wrong version - in 2.16.x you need - \tweak #'color #red Eluze -- View this message in context:

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Shann
Thank you very much for this answer. One minor puzzle: what is the hyphen doing before \tweak in these examples? I have tried the same script with and without the hyphen and (on 2.16.0) I get the same pdf. That is, this seems to work just fine: \tweak #'extra-offset #'(0 . 2) ^\markup {pizz.}

Re: Two bits of markup at the same point in the music?

2012-12-10 Thread David Kastrup
Richard Shann richard.sh...@virgin.net writes: Thank you very much for this answer. One minor puzzle: what is the hyphen doing before \tweak in these examples? I have tried the same script with and without the hyphen and (on 2.16.0) I get the same pdf. That is, this seems to work just fine: