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

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Marcus Macauley <address@hidden>:

> As an alternative to the second method -- and a perhaps more 
> conventional  one, recommended by Kurt Stone -- niente can be notated 
> not with the  dynamic letter "n" but with the italic "n." (this time 
> with a period).  This should be possible to do now, but I can't 
> figure out how to switch  off the boldface:
>
> n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:text #:italic "n." ) ) % This 
> makes  the text bold-italic.
>
> n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:text "n." ) ) % In fact, even 
> this  makes it bold-italic, as if that's the default text font style. 
> Why? And  how to switch it off?

The simple reason is that dynamics by default have bold face turned on. 
For situations like these, where you want tobe sure
to first reset all font related properties before starting applying 
your own preferences, the markup command \normal-text was introduced
in version 2.7. So you should be able to do something like
n = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:normal-text #:italic "n." ) )

  /Mats