Re: 3 Sided Box?

[Jeff Elliott]

Hello Mats,

Thanks so much for this.  Sorry it took me so long to get to it --  
I've been just crazy busy and had to put LilyPond on hold for a while.
Your solution works great, although "very easy to add one" ... I'm  
not sure I would say "very".  I don't understand most of the details  
of the code.  It doesn't seem as symmetrical as I would have thought  
for a box.  But I figured out how to remove whatever side I want and  
I can just include these box functions in a separate file.

It was quite a nice feeling to have posted a question and have it  
answered / solved so quickly.  I don't have to wait for the next  
version of the program to see if my concern had been addressed.
Thanks again,

Jeff.

On 26-Sep-07, at 5:34 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> Quoting fedge <address@hidden>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to using Lilypond, and Finale for that matter.  I'm trying  
> > to decide
> > which is better.
> > So far, what I like about Lilypond is that I seem to be able to do  
> > just
> > about anything I want ... except this: I like the \box option  
> > around a text
> > markup, but I would really like it if it only had three sides  
> > (LEFT, TOP and
> > RIGHT -- or, LEFT, BOTTOM and RIGHT).
> >
> > Is there anyway to customize this?  Or maybe I have to write some  
> > "function"
> > that draws three lines, but will bound itself around some text?
>
> Right, there's no such function in LilyPond by default, but it's very
> easy to add one. I just added an example in our snippet repository,  
> LSR, see http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=330
>
>   /Mats