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From: "Johan Vromans" <jvrom...@squirrel.nl>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Using strings and other types to return markup
On Wed, 11 May 2016 09:31:28 +0000 (UTC)
Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote:
I want to create a function in scheme that will take a string argument
something like "san~t" and return a markup which will place the tilde
above the n.
Why not just write sañt ? Lilypond understands unicode.
1. I didn't know that character existed.
2. It's a bit more complicated, though. 16th century printers have a habit
of eliding an n from a word and instead putting what looks like (but might
not be) a tiny tilde above the previous letter to show this. So I want the
tilde to be (a) much smaller than the letter, and (b) to be able to be
placed over any other letter. I would assume your solution would answer (b)
(if I had a list of unicode characters with tildes over them to hand) but
probably not (a). It would, however, have saved me about 5 hours of
tinkering with scheme :-o
\markup { "sant ->" \concat { &s; \combine a \translate #'(0.2 . 1.1)
\fontsize #-6 ~ t } }
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Phil Holmes
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