Re: using \markup for #'("text" . "")

[Christopher Ellis]

Thanks Graham and Mats.  I can now do what I want to
do.  I was planning on putting a #:hspace ~0.5 after
the the finger number, but this gives an unexpected
result that looks no where near as good as putting a
space " " character after the finger number.  The
number is much higher than it needs to be and the line
is only a little higher.  It looks like the spanner
line is right at the base of the number, or left
edge-text.  I would be interested in an explanation as
to why this happens, but it is not necessary.  ly
below will show what I am talking about.  The first
measure looks good, in the 2nd the line is too low
relative to the number.  Thanks again.  Chris

\version "2.6.0"

test = \relative c'' {      
  \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #'()    
  \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #(cons (markup
#:center-align (#:finger "1 " ) " " ) "")
  b\startTextSpan c c b\stopTextSpan | \revert
TextSpanner #'edge-text
  \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #(cons (markup
#:center-align (#:finger "1") #:hspace -3.0 ) "")
  b\startTextSpan c c b\stopTextSpan |
}

\score {
        \test
        }

--- Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> See for example
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00020.html
> 
> To understand why this works and not what you tried,
> you need some
> knowledge about the Scheme language. The short story
> is that you
> need the (markup ..) command to be evaluated, not
> just passed as a
> list.
> 
>     /Mats
> 
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > To set the text for TextSpanner, one does
> >   \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("foo" . "
> ")
> > 
> > How can you use \markup{ foo } instead of "foo" ? 
> Judging from
> > 11.2.1 Markup construction in scheme, I thought
> that this would work
> > 
> >   \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'( (markup
> "foo") . "")
> > 
> > but it doesn't.  :(
> > 
> > 
> > Christopher -- once we find out how to do this,
> try adding a
> > \hspace #1
> > to the end of your finger string ("1 ").  It may
> not be ideal, but it
> > should work.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> > 
> > On 6-Aug-05, at 6:54 PM, Christopher Ellis wrote:
> > 
> >>   \override TextSpanner #'font-encoding =
> #'fetaNumber
> >>   \override TextSpanner #'font-size = #-5
> >>   \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("1 " . "
> ")
> >>   \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #'()
> >>   %\override TextSpanner #'shorten-pair = #'(0 .
> 0)
> >>   b\startTextSpan c c b\stopTextSpan |
> > 
> > 
> > I think this is the best way; hence me question.
> > 
> >> % this works as in should in the way that I want,
> >> % however the fingering is not nicely centered
> like
> >> % a regular fingering instruction. also the line
> is
> >> too
> >> % close too the fingering.  i am sure that I can
> get
> >> % close to what I want with the
> >> % commented out "shorten-pair"
> >> % line but it would be nice if I could
> >> % do this spanner with
> >> % the left edge-text centered like a
> >> % fingering and not have
> >> % the line so close to the fingering.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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