Re: Needing space after a user-defined ornament

2023-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > I don't understand this discussion. Over here, > […] produces the same output as > […] > What am I missing? Not sure… When I tried the OP’s code, it didn’t seem to work, even when I played with the numbers; then I added TextScript and it started to work. It didn’t make sense to me

Re: Needing space after a user-defined ornament

2023-04-11 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mardi 11 avril 2023 à 07:14 -0400, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > Hi Alasdair, > > > > Many thanks indeed - that works a treat!  How does one find out about these > > things?  I had tried just > > - \tweak extra-spacing-width #'(2 . 3) > > which hadn't worked.  Clearly I needed the extra space

Re: Needing space after a user-defined ornament

2023-04-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alasdair, > Many thanks indeed - that works a treat! How does one find out about these > things? I had tried just > - \tweak extra-spacing-width #'(2 . 3) > which hadn't worked. Clearly I needed the extra space property of text. I tried what you did first, and it didn’t work for me

Re: Needing space after a user-defined ornament

2023-04-10 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Hi Kieran, Many thanks indeed - that works a treat! How does one find out about these things? I had tried just - \tweak extra-spacing-width #'(2 . 3) which hadn't worked. Clearly I needed the extra space property of text. Thanks again, Alasdair On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, 9:33 pm Kieren

Re: Needing space after a user-defined ornament

2023-04-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alasdair, > Lilypond sometimes doesn't recognize this symbol as needing space, so > depending on the spacing of the notes, this symbol can get very squashed. > How can I add extra horizontal spacing to my function? ttr = #(define-event-function (placement) (pair?) #{

Needing space after a user-defined ornament

2023-04-10 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I'm typesetting some French baroque music, in which a sort of large breath mark was used to indicate a particular type of trill. And the mark is positioned close to the note, generally a little to the right and up. What I've done is create a small function: ttr = #(define-event-function