\paper { tagline = ##f } aaa = \markup \filled-box #'(10 . 30) #'(10 . 20) #0 %% skew markup %% p ... scaling factor in y-direction %% q ... extension factor in y-direction %% arg ... markup %% rotate markup 45° and scale it with (1 . p) %% now x- and y-axes are compressed with different scales %% rotation back with arctan(p) %% scale with #(cons (/ 1 l) (/ p l)) #(define-markup-command (skew-x layout props p arg q) (number? markup? number? ) (let* ( (p2 (* p p)) (p2h (/ p2 2)) (ll (+ .5 p2h)) (l (sqrt ll)) (xtan (atan p)) (winkel (/ (* -1 (* xtan 180)) PI)) ) (interpret-markup layout props #{ \markup \scale #(cons (/ 1 l) (/ p l)) \rotate #winkel \scale #`(1 . ,p) \rotate #45 \scale #`(1 . ,q) $arg #} ))) \markup \combine \with-color #(x11-color 'MidnightBlue) \aaa \translate #'(6.1 . 6.35) \skew-x #.2 \with-color #(x11-color 'snow4) \aaa #3