IMO Lilypond should render musical Unicode characters using the same font as the music itself, and the default size/alignment of the glyphs within text markup should not require adjustment to look correct.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 4:07 AM William Rehwinkel < will...@williamrehwinkel.net> wrote: > Dear Saul, > > I don't see why this would be surprising... as you said it's the > difference of using the unicode symbol from the text font (such as > unicode symbol https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+266D for a flat) for > an accidental and pasting in the lilypond musical font symbol for that > accidental. You can prove this by loading a different font either for > the serif font or musical glyph font. (Sorry for probably using wrong > terminology here) > > In my opinion using the lilypond font accidental in a markup block is > probably intended for other use cases, such as putting an editorial > accidental above or below a note instead of in its usual place. > > As for how it looks, I suppose that is a matter of taste. But I would > probably use the unicode accidental symbols if the need for writing an > accidental in a piece of text came up in the future. You could > definitely make the text using lilypond accidentals look right by > changing the font size of either the text or the accidental, it's just a > matter of the size and alignment. > > -William > > On 1/15/23 01:05, Saul Tobin wrote: > > Surprisingly, typing the Unicode characters for accidental symbols does > > not produce the same font output as using the markup commands: > > > > << > > \new Staff { > > c'1^"B♭" > > c'1^"C♯" > > c'1^"D♮" > > } > > \new Staff { > > c'1^\markup { B \flat } > > c'1^\markup { C \sharp } > > c'1^\markup { D \natural } > > } > > >> > > > > And neither looks particularly great IMO. > > -- > + ---------------------------------------------- + > | William Rehwinkel - Oberlin College and | > | Conservatory '24 | > | will...@williamrehwinkel.net | > | PGP key: | > | https://williamrehwinkel.net/static/pubkey.txt | > + ---------------------------------------------- + >
