It bugs me a bit that macros are needed to tweak the spacing of accidental
symbols in markup. Shouldn't the default markup commands for accidental
symbols have correct size and spacing?
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:02 PM Kieren MacMillan <
kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi Saul (et al.),
>
> > I usually just type the accidental signs as Unicode characters. I find
> the sizing and alignment works better than with the Lilypond markup
> commands.
>
> Personally, I find the Unicode symbols unattractive, so I prefer to use
> Lilypond. Sizing and alignment are easily tweaked by predefining macros:
>
> \version "2.19.83"
>
> textFlat = \markup \raise #0.4 \fontsize #-2 { \hspace #0.0875 \flat }
> textNatural = \markup \raise #0.625 \fontsize #-2 { \hspace #0.175
> \natural }
> textSharp = \markup \raise #0.75 \fontsize #-2 { \hspace #0.1 \sharp }
>
> \markup \concat { B \textFlat " is one semitone below " B \textNatural ",
> and two semitones below " B \textSharp }
>
> Hope that helps!
> Kieren.
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