> I'd like to do this too. Actually, what I'd like most would be a few
> individual script letters, R and L in particular, to intermix with
> standard roman M and D (left & right in Scarlatti's Portuguese).
> I'd need to use a standard PostScript script font, to keep dvips
> from copying a whole font file into each of my 555 ps outputs :(
How about
\newcommand{\chancsymb}[1]{{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontshape{it}\selectfont #1}}
\newcommand{\chancL}{\chancsymb{L}}
\newcommand{\chancR}{\chancsymb{R}}
which uses the standard Zapf Chancery Postscript font.
The simplest way to get this into Lilypond is to put the
above lines in a file global.tex, add the following line
in the \header{} section of your .ly file
latexheaders = "\\input global";
and use it with for example
c4^"\\chancL" or c8^"\\chancR{} molto moderato"
If you want another size, you could modify the command to, for example
\newcommand{\chancsymb}[1]{{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontshape{it}%
\fontsize{14}{16pt}\selectfont #1}}
/Mats
