Re: Inputting special symbols

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 13 January 2006 21.34, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> If you want to concatenate two strings, one method is to
> set the word-space property to zero:
> \markup{\override #'(word-space . 0) \line {1\super st } clarinet }
>
> Of course, it's more convenient to hack together a \concatenate
> markup command.

This is not always the same as \concatenate.
For example, compare
\markup{\override #'(word-space . 0) \line {V A V f i} }
with
\markup{ VAVfi }

In the second example, pango can do some fancy typesetting tricks (which it 
does in the version bundled with the very latest installer)

-- 
Erik