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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