Re: can't seem to apply tweaks on tweaks

[Thomas Morley]

2015-12-30 15:53 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> But the following works
>>
>> #(define eightva
>>   #{
>>     \markup
>>       %% messing around with \with-dimensions, because OttavaBracket has no
>>       %% possibility to set details.stencil-align-dir-y
>>       %% :((
>>       \with-dimensions #'(0 . 4) #'(0 . 2.8)
>>       \italic \concat { "8" \raise #0.5 { \hspace #0.25 "va" } \hspace #0.5
>> }
>>   #})
>
> That one is easier to write as
>
> eightva =
> \markup
>   %% messing around with \with-dimensions, because OttavaBracket has no
>   %% possibility to set details.stencil-align-dir-y
>   %% :((
>   \with-dimensions #'(0 . 4) #'(0 . 2.8)
>   \italic \concat
>     { "8" \raise #0.5 { \hspace #0.25 "va" } \hspace #0.5 }
>
>
> --
> David Kastrup

True.
I did it this way because I got an error about unknown escape-string,
while using eightva directly afterwards.
Though, I can't restore the exact syntax where it happened ...