Re: line breaking and fingering

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:43:40 Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > (Oops, I forgot to attach the code)
> > Hellow,
> > I am using lilypond 1.5.71 on windows machine. I would like to ask for
> > your experiences concerning manual line breaking and fingering
> > placement,
> > 1. How can I break to a new line just before a grace note? (See the
> > example below in the upper voice. If I quote the grace note away,
> > everything goes fine. For now, it seems to be unable to start a new
> > line with a grace note.)
> 
> Looks like a bug to me. 
> 
> > 2. How can I put the fingering indication not only above or bellow a
> > note but also beside it? (This happens sometimes if I want to finger
> > for every note in an arpeggio.)
> 
> See the the example file input/test/script-horizontal.ly.
> 
> > 3. For guitar player, sometimes string indication is needed. It is
> > shown by a circle around the string number above or bellow a note. How
> > do I draw this? In the example I used text markup to put "(2)" (B
> > string) above fis8. But it's not really as desired as convention.
> 
> We do not have any supported for circles around text of rehearsal
> marks in Lilypond, but you could always use inline TeX code. Try 
> c^"\\textcircled{5}"

Thanks a lot, I didn't know how to do that either.

I got a *much* better result with this (1.4.13):

_""_"\\textcircled{\\textsc{e}}"

or

^""^"\\textcircled{\\small{6}}"

Apparently an extra empty line is necessary because
of the font change, because the circle ran into a beam
without it. 

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