RE: Trick: tilted "glissando" text

[Michael Lakes]

Hey, that's a pretty good trick.  Where did you found the syntax for it?  
Also, do you (or if anyone knows) know the syntax for embeddedps? And what 
each parameter does (I'm trying to draw a glissando line)?


> From: Antti Kaihola <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Trick: tilted "glissando" text
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:43:58 +0300
>
> I'd like to share a postscript hack I used to print the "gliss." text
> under a scale passage and tilt the text according to the angle of the
> scale.
>
> You can adjust according to your layout the
> - angle (here -15 degrees)
> - offset (5 -2)
> - scale (12.0)
> - font (\CMTI12)
> - text (gliss.)
>
> Please point out if this can be done in a more elegant way. I'm not a
> PostScript guru or LilyPond expert, so I don't really understand what
> I'm doing... :)
>
>
>
> \relative c' \times 8/9 {
>   d'32_\markup { \postscript #"gsave
>                                /CMTI12 findfont
>                                5 -2 moveto
>                                12.0 output-scale div
>                                scalefont setfont
>                                -15 rotate
>                                (gliss.) show
>                                grestore" }(
>   c h a g f e d c)
> }
>
>
>
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