On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:25 PM, James Worlton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Keith OHara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Xavier Noria <fxn <at> hashref.com> writes: >> >> > > subtitle = \markup { "Part for" \concat{"E"\flat} "saxaphone"} >> > >> > That would be a nice touch. The flat looks weird over here though (see >> > attachment), is there an alternate markup I could use? >> >> Bummer. You can remove the \concat {} to get a space between E and flat. >> LilyPond reads unicode, in the utf-8 encoding, so you can use the flat >> character ♭, unicode 2ffD to write E♭ directly in your input file. Your >> text editor might not have a glyph for the flat, but you will see the flat >> sign from the roman font in the PDF file. >> > > This produces acceptable (to my eyes) results for the subtitle using > 2.16.1: > subtitle = \markup { "Part for E" \concat { \translate #'(-0.3 . 0.6) > \abs-fontsize #8 \flat } "saxophone" } > > I should mention that I'm using #(set-global-staff-size 17). For other staff sizes you may need to change the \abs-fontsize appropriately. I put \abs-fontsize in there because the flat was too big compared to the text without it. James Worlton
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