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Placing a text at the end of a hairpin (decrescendo)

…not implemented. I defined "n." as a dynamic text and also created one of my own: "pd." … …attempted to tweak the Scheme code to center text under a hairpin and managed to get a …

…props) () #:category other " @cindex creating vertical space in text Create a box of the same height as … …#(define-music-function (text) (markup?) " Returns a hairpin with text at the right. " #{ \once \override Voice.Hairpin.after-line-breaking = #(hairpin-with-right-text-callback text) #}) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % EXAMPLES %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \new Staff \relative c' { \hairpinWithRightText \markup \…

Expressive marks Text Scheme language Contemporary notation

Define shorthand for text spanner, like rit. or rall.

…line, you have to first set bound-details.left.text. However, it is easy to define a shorthand to both set the text and start the text spanner.

rit = \tweak bound-details.left.text #"rit. " \startTextSpan rall = \tweak bound-details.left.text #"rall. " \startTextSpan % If you prefer the syntax \…

Text Expressive marks

Center text below hairpin dynamics

…typeset a hairpin (de)crescendo with some additional text below it, such as molto or poco . The added text will change the direction according to the direction …

\paper { tagline = ##f } hairpinWithCenteredText = #(define-music-function (text) (markup?) #{ \once \override Voice.Hairpin.after-line-breaking = #(… …grob (make-fontsize-markup (magnification->font-size (+ (ly:staff-symbol-staff-space grob) (/ staff-line-thickness 2))) text)) X CENTER)) X LEFT)) (staff-space (ly:output-def-lookup (ly:grob-layout grob) '…

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Using lyrics as markup text

…defines a \verse markup command to include \lyricmode text. You can decide to use a linebreak character …

…null? (filter (lambda (m) (music-is-of-type? m 'hyphen-event)) art)))) (text (ly:music-property lyrics 'text))) (if hyphen? (list text hyphen?) (… …if (not (null? text)) (let eat ((wd (car text)) (wds (cdr text))) (cond ((null? wds) (list wd)) ((and (boolean? (car …

Text Vocal music

Creating text spanners

…startTextSpan and \stopTextSpan commands allow the creation of text spanners as easily as pedal indications or octavations. …

…ragged-right = ##f } \relative c'' { \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = #"bla" \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = #"… …TextSpanner.style = #'dashed-line \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . 1) } \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . -2) } \once \override TextSpanner.…

Text Tweaks and overrides Expressive marks docs

Volta text markup using repeatCommands

…must be used in cases where the volta text needs more advanced formatting with \markup. Since repeatCommands … …markup is to use an identifier for the text and embed it in the command list using …

voltaAdLib = \markup { 1. 2. 3... \text \italic { ad lib. } } \relative c'' { c1 \set Score.…

Repeats Symbols and glyphs Text docs

Changing ottava text

…8va or 8vb) and middleCPosition. To override the text of the bracket, set ottavation after invoking \ottava. Short text is especially useful when a brief ottava is …

…0 c'1 \ottava 1 \set Staff.ottavation = "Text" c''1 }

Pitches Text docs

Right-aligned and centered Text

If you want to format a long text to be right-aligned or centered, set the text's line-width as appropriate and use the new …

…Item?id=765 % Defines right-aligned and centered long text with the possibility to set the baseline-skip as …

Text Spacing Paper and layout

(Correctly aligned) different dispersions of text in different stanzas

…different amount of syllables the dispersion of the text may differ from stanza to stanza. This snippets …

…different amount of syllables %the dispersion of the text may differ from stanza to stanza. %This snippets … …stanza = "1." First stan -- za has some text. And it goes on and on. } secondStanzaLyrics = \lyricmode { \…

Rhythms Text Vocal music workaround

Changing breathe marks to markup text

…symbols in the score are replaced. Using arbitrary text rather than just a symbol to replace the …

…#"Helvetica" \override BreathingSign.font-size = #8 \override BreathingSign.text = #(markup (#:raise 0.2 ",")) } } \new Staff { \relative …

Staff notation Text