Re: Accidental text in score

[Mats Bengtsson]

Terje Tjervaag wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this is covered in the manual, I can't find it anywhere.  Is it 
> possible to insert pieces of text anywhere within the score?  I'm 
> thinking about comments and whatnot and it would be useful to be able to 
> place them wherever.  If this is not possible, what are the 
> possibilities in Lilypond regarding comments and other information along 
> the lines of the score?

What do you want, more specifically? For short comments, a text script
should work just fine, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-scripts.html
and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html

If you want paragraphs of text with full line width, between two score
lines, you could either use the between-systems-strings property to
insert any LaTeX code, as described at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html

If you have even more text, lilypond-book is probably the way to go, since

> I also have a question about fingering information.  Is it possible to 
> have two sets of fingering informations, one above and one below the 
> lines to signify the left and right hand respectively?  And is it 
> possible to replace the numbers in the fingering notation by letters so 
> t=thumb, i=index and so on?

You can specify that a fingering, just as well as text scripts, dynamics
or articulations, can be typeset above or below the score line using
^1 and _1, respectively. This is documented for articulations at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v1.8/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Articulations.html
but it's maybe not clearly described that the same applies to other
kind of annotations.

If you want letters instead of numbers, I recommend text scripts.
The only problem is if you want to use the fingerHorizontalDirection
feature.