Re: Text over fermata

[M Watts]

Joseph Haig wrote:
> I want to put a markup over a fermata but when I try this:
>
>   a'2\fermata^\markup { \italic lunga }
>
> I get the text under the fermata.  How can I force it above?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>   

One way is to do it as a markup:

\markup { \center-column { \italic "lunga" \musicglyph 
#"scripts.ufermata" } }