Dear Abraham,
Thank you for your advice, which did help. I had already tried \concat { a
\super b }, but it did not work because, as I see now, I had just inserted it
into the text instead of placing it outside the pair of quotation marks.
I'm glad you also pointed out the possibilities to fine-tune the result.
Thanks again.
Best regards
Robert
On 5 Feb 2016, at 20:19 , Abraham Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Robert Blackstone
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Dear list
>
> The LilyPond-project that I'm presently working on deals with some 40 songs,
> voice and a keyboard instrument, with comments and explanations underneath
> each score, some with small musical examples.
> In these comments I would like interval names like 5ths and 8ves to be
> written with "ths" and "ves" as superscript, but up till now none of super
> scrip t possibilities I found in the LilyPond Notation Reference worked in
> the \markup -part of the file. They sometimes even made the whole comment
> disappear.
>
> See the MWE below. (not so minimal, my apologies). What can I do to get
> these superscripts?
> (Both the music and the comment are fictional. Just found some snippets that
> could serve my purpose here.)
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \relative c'
> {
> \new Staff { \omit Staff.TimeSignature \clef treble \time 3/2
> <<
> {\stemUp cis'2 \once \hideNotes b4 \once \hideNotes b b2 }\bar "||"
> \new Voice {\voiceTwo \stemDown a2 \set fontSize = #-4 \single \hide Stem
> gis4 \single \hide Stem fis4^- \unset fontSize e2 |}
> >>
> <<
> {\stemUp fis2 \once \hideNotes r4 \once \hideNotes r4 e2 } \bar "||"
> \new Voice {\voiceTwo \stemDown d2 \set fontSize = #-4 \single \hide Stem
> cis4 \single \hide Stem b4^- \unset fontSize a2 |}
> >>
> }\bar "||"
>
> }
> }
> }
>
> \markup {
> \fill-line {" "
> {
> \column {
> \left-align {
> "Sometimes hidden parallel 5ths can be tolerated but these could have been
> avoided by contrary movement." "The same goes for parallel 8ves."
>
> } %end left-align
> } %end Column
> }
> } % end fill-line
> } %end markup
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> There's a markup command called \concat which can stitch together other
> markups/strings. So here's how I'd reformat your text:
>
> \left-align {
> \concat { "Sometimes hidden parallel 5" \super "ths" " can be tolerated but
> these could have been avoided by contrary movement." }
> \concat { "The same goes for parallel 8" \super "ves" "." }
> } %end left-align
>
> Notice my usage of the \super command as well. So, I've split up each string
> into three chunks: the characters preceding the superscript, the superscript
> itself, and all the characters following the superscript (including the
> initial space).
>
> There are other things you can do to get different vertical alignment (like
> with \raise), but this also requires you to shrink the font size as well:
>
> \concat { "... parallel 5" { \raise #0.5 \tiny "ths" } " can be tolerated
> ..." }
>
> HTH,
> Abraham
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