Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Nov 2019 at 09:22:28 (+0100), Karsten Reincke wrote: > Thanks for your comments and discussion. Very helpful! > @saul: Sorry, for this silly additional question: How do I insert a unicode > character (for example U+266D) in a lyric text, if I do not have a > corresponding > font etc? Do

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-06 Thread Saul Tobin
I haven't run into font limitations with Unicode accidentals. I use Compose Key to make it easy to type them. Saul On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:22 AM Karsten Reincke wrote: > Thanks for your comments and discussion. Very helpful! > @saul: Sorry, for this silly additional question: How do I insert

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-06 Thread Karsten Reincke
Thanks for your comments and discussion. Very helpful! @saul: Sorry, for this silly additional question: How do I insert a unicode character (for example U+266D) in a lyric text, if I do not have a corresponding font etc? Do you have eny example? many thanks, again Karsten On Tue, 2019-11-05 at

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Saul Tobin
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 5:08 PM Andrew Bernard wrote: > HI Saul, > > What is correct? I believe this is a highly subjective matter. > > Andrew > Sure, agreed. But the default should at least be reasonable without tweaking, right? > > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 11:15, Saul Tobin > wrote: > >> It

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Saul Tobin
The breaking-ness seems like an obstacle. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 5:05 PM Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Saul, > > > It bugs me a bit that macros are needed to tweak the spacing of > accidental symbols in markup. Shouldn't the default markup commands for > accidental symbols have correct size and

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Andrew Bernard
HI Saul, What is correct? I believe this is a highly subjective matter. Andrew On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 11:15, Saul Tobin wrote: > It bugs me a bit that macros are needed to tweak the spacing of accidental > symbols in markup. Shouldn't the default markup commands for accidental > symbols have

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Saul, > It bugs me a bit that macros are needed to tweak the spacing of accidental > symbols in markup. Shouldn't the default markup commands for accidental > symbols have correct size and spacing? That would be easy to fix in the distro, if you wanted to submit a patch… but it would screw

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Saul Tobin
It bugs me a bit that macros are needed to tweak the spacing of accidental symbols in markup. Shouldn't the default markup commands for accidental symbols have correct size and spacing? On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:02 PM Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Saul (et al.), >

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Saul (et al.), > I usually just type the accidental signs as Unicode characters. I find the > sizing and alignment works better than with the Lilypond markup commands. Personally, I find the Unicode symbols unattractive, so I prefer to use Lilypond. Sizing and alignment are easily tweaked

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Saul Tobin
I usually just type the accidental signs as Unicode characters. I find the sizing and alignment works better than with the Lilypond markup commands. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 3:32 PM Karsten Reincke wrote: > Dear friends; > > does anyone know how I could insert a (double) flat or a (double) sharp in

Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:33 PM Karsten Reincke wrote: > > Dear friends; > > does anyone know how I could insert a (double) flat or a (double) sharp in a > lyric > text (or stanza or anywhe else) to comment a chord representation? > Sure, see

flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

2019-11-05 Thread Karsten Reincke
Dear friends; does anyone know how I could insert a (double) flat or a (double) sharp in a lyric text (or stanza or anywhe else) to comment a chord representation? Many thanks for your help Karsten -- Karsten Reincke/\/\ (+49|0) 170 / 927 78 57 Im Braungeröll 31 >oo<