3. From what I can make out, lilypond's markup language can only handle WORDS, not TEXT (as has been evidenced by people complaining that lilypond strips out any attempts at spacing. It's all very well having to place each word individually, but what do you then do if you want to change the font size?)
Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Han-Wen Nienhuys Sent: 08 September 2006 14:34 To: Mats Bengtsson Cc: Trevor Bača; [email protected] Subject: Re: Midstring markup Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> Pango actually supports a simple markup scheme of itself. It would be >> nice if there were a >> >> \pangoMarkup #"<b>bold</b>" >> >> command that uses Pango's facilities to format text. > I don't see the point of introducing yet another "programming language" > and syntax > to use in .ly files, especially since we already have markup commands > that do the > same thing. 1. it's relatively easy to do. 2. The problem is that lily's markup language doesn't know anything about multilingual issues, and will almost always mess up details of word/letterspacing when combined with bidi text and changing languages. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user * ************************************************************************ * This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 8272 5300, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. * ************************************************************************ * _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
