Re: Super and sub

[Robert Blackstone]

Dear David,

Thank you very much. Perfect. This is what I had hoped for.

I needed some time to find out how to insert "real" LilyPond accidentals 
instead of your "♯" but I think I can manage that now.
(Just curious: What is ♯? Not the normal #.)


Best regards,
Robert Blackstone

On 7 Feb 2016, at 11:39 , David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Robert Blackstone <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> Just as I was trying to formulate a request for some additional feature 
>> related to
>> Super and Sub I saw Joram's mail, the first of this thread, with which I very
>> much agree.
>> 
>> So maybe I can use this thread to ask for the following:
>> 
>> In comments accompanying some scores I feel a need for BC figures, as shown
>> in these screenshot:. (typeset with ConTeXt, Im not sure this feature exists 
>> in
>> LaTeX)
>> 
>> *
>> and 
>> *
>> 
>> Would this be doable in LilyPond ? A sort of unattached Super-Sub couple (and
>> triple)
>> If not, could it somehow be added to its immense reservoir of features?
> 
> #(define-markup-command (stack layout props args) (markup-list?)
>  (interpret-markup layout props
>   #{ \markup \tiny \raise #0.5 \general-align #Y #CENTER
>      \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \right-column #args #}))
> 
> \markup { Would be a \stack {6 5 3} on the 
>         harmonized as \stack { 7 ♯3 } → \stack { 7 5 }, }
> 
> 
>> (Preferably with LilyPonds own accidentals and perhaps the BC-font.)
> 
> Well, what you put in there is up to you.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup