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Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:26:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Mark,
>
> [Welcome to the 'Pond!]
>
>> I want to get the verbb text to show as italic.
>
> The easiest way is probably:
>
> verbb = \lyricmode {
> \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
> ut re mi fa sol la
> }
>
>> Second question: I want to replace the "G" in verba with a Greek Upper
>> Gamma (Γ doesn't work). Is there a simple way of doing this?
>
> Make sure your file is being saved with Unicode (UTF-8) encoding, and
> simply put the gamma (𝜸) in there directly.
That's a lowercase math gamma. You mean Γ instead (the normal uppercase
text gamma) which of course is also available in a lowercase variant γ.
You really really don't want to use math fonts for text.
--
David Kastrup