Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> That's a lowercase math gamma. > > LOL > > Yes, I’m so used to using that in my number theory papers, I wasn’t > thinking about the OP’s likely use. Thanks for clarifying! ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος or "text first". -- David Kastrup

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, On Jan 14, 2019, at 11:58 PM, Mark Probert wrote: > it comes out just the way I am after! Yay! Onward and upward. =) Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > That's a lowercase math gamma. LOL Yes, I’m so used to using that in my number theory papers, I wasn’t thinking about the OP’s likely use. Thanks for clarifying! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email:

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Mark, > > [Welcome to the 'Pond!] > >> I want to get the verbb text to show as italic. > > The easiest way is probably: > > verbb = \lyricmode { > \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic > ut re mi fa sol la > } > >> Second question: I want to replace the

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-14 Thread Mark Probert
Aaron wrote: >> > If you need more than just the one Greek letter, you can always > extend the \paper's replacement-alist in a similar fashion to how > include-special-characters works. > Thanks! There's so much to learn about this Lilypond environment... .. m.

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-14 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-01-14 8:58 pm, Mark Probert wrote: Thank you! Though the gamma thing doesn't really work in my case (I'm using Lilypond under org-babel ;-) ) but I did find a nice solution (it was in another section of documentation I hadn't gotten to.. doh! The relevant section now looks lie\ke: ---<

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-14 Thread Mark Probert
You wrote: > > The easiest way is probably: > Thank you! Though the gamma thing doesn't really work in my case (I'm using Lilypond under org-babel ;-) ) but I did find a nice solution (it was in another section of documentation I hadn't gotten to.. doh! The relevant section now looks lie\ke:

Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, [Welcome to the 'Pond!] > I want to get the verbb text to show as italic. The easiest way is probably: verbb = \lyricmode { \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic ut re mi fa sol la } > Second question: I want to replace the "G" in verba with a Greek Upper > Gamma ( doesn't

[newbie] Some \markup stuff

2019-01-14 Thread Mark Probert
Hi, all. I've hit a small snag which I can't find an elegant solution for. In the following snippet I want to get the verbb text to show as italic. I can surround each element with \markup \italic{ xx } but that is ugly. And I can't seem to see anything obvious jumping out of the