So, in summary, might we have something like this?
Entering text
Text may be entered in three ways:
o delimited by curly brackets, let's call this "bracketed text"
o delimited by double quotes, let's call this "quoted text"
o delimited by spaces, let's call this "bare text"
but there are restrictions on each of these:
o Bracketed text is only valid when preceded by \markup,
but can contain other commands and even quoted text
o Quoted text cannot contain other commands, but can
contain special characters which will be interpreted
literally as simple characters
o Bare text must be a single word containing only
alphabetic characters
o More?
The \markup command will accept all three forms, and these
illustrate the increasing facilities available:
o \markup accelerando
o \markup "gradually speeding up"
o \markup {\italic {poco a poco stringendo}}
Other commands are more selective. For example, text for
ottava brackets can only be entered as quoted text.
etc
Trevor
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Mandereau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mats Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "lily-devel" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)
On 2008/05/23, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Graham Percival wrote:
>
> *as far as I know*, anything in lilypond that accepts "blah blah"
> also accepts \markup.
>
This is almost true. However, I seem to recall a few exceptions. For
example, you
cannot use a \markup expression as the value when you set a property in
\lyricmode.
There is another exception: text for ottava brackets (Staff.ottavation
property) can only be a string, not a markup. I guess it should be easy
to make it accept a markup, though.
Cheers,
John
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