Re: Overlapping Characters in markup

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 23 December 2016 at 15:10, Br. Samuel Springuel
<address@hidden> wrote:
> If I wish to create a markup command that combines two characters from
> different fonts (the normal Roman font of the file and another font which
> provides special glyphs) in an overlapping fashion, how would I go about
> doing that?
>
> Thus far I have the following which has both characters, but no overlap:
>
> %%%%%%%%%
>
> \version "2.19.53"
>
> \markup { V { \override #'(font-name . "greextra")  } } }
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Note: Since most of you likely don't have the font I'm trying to pull the
> special character from, I've attached it.
>
> Also, it should be noted that I am aware of the unicode character ℣. The
> font I've chosen for this project does not have that character in it, hence
> why I'm trying to fake it.
>
>
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> Br. Samuel, OSB
> St. Anselm’s Abbey
> Washington, DC
> (R. Padraic Springuel)
>
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I think a little experimentation with \translate or \translate-scaled
(the second argument) should do the trick...

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/align

Cheers,
Vaughan