Re: al niente / de niente - was Re: (no subject)

[Marcus Macauley]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:27:24 -0800, Trevor Bača"" <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> On 3/16/06, Marcus Macauley <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Another way of notating this, which I prefer, but also I think needs to  
> > be
> > implemented, is to follow the decresc. (or precede the cresc.) with a
> > bold/italic "n" or "n.", for niente.
>
> Does #(make-dynamic-script "n.") not help? (As in the examples in 8.1.8?)

At least for me (Lilypond 2.7.38 on Windows, not cygwin), doing that  
prints the "n." in a giant sans-serif font -- very inappropriate. I assume  
it does that because the dynamic-script font lacks an "n" character, so it  
substitutes the letter from another font.

Marcus