Re: Disable spaces around italic text

[Ian Mackinnon]

Thanks Kevin, that solves the problem.

I used weblily.net to write my example, and that seems to use v2.12.2, but I have the latest version installed locally, thanks :)

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On 10 March 2015 at 13:43, Kevin Barry <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Ian Mackinnon <address@hidden> wrote:

When using `\italic`, it seems that spaces are inserted before and after the
formatted text. Is it possible to disable this, ie, place an italic character
directly next to a non-italic character?

Hi Ian,

LilyPond adds space between all markups. To glue two or more things together you need to use the \concat function, e.g.: 

\markup {
  \concat { a \italic {b c} d \italic "e f" g. }
}

By the way, version 2.12, if that is what you are using, is well out of date. You should upgrade to 2.18. It's 100% awesome!

Kevin