Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in articulations?)

[Graham Percival]

This looks right to me, and since nobody has come up with any
better names, let's go with bracketed/quoted/bare.

Unless we want to call the first one "curly text".  ;)

Cheers,
- Graham


On Fri, 23 May 2008 21:19:56 +0100
"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> So, in summary, might we have something like this?
> 
> Entering text
> 
> Text may be entered in three ways:
>  o delimited by curly brackets, let's call this "bracketed text"
>  o delimited by double quotes, let's call this "quoted text"
>  o delimited by spaces, let's call this "bare text"
> 
> but there are restrictions on each of these:
>  
>  o Bracketed text is only valid when preceded by \markup,
>    but can contain other commands and even quoted text
>  o Quoted text cannot contain other commands, but can
>    contain special characters which will be interpreted
>    literally as simple characters
>  o Bare text must be a single word containing only 
>    alphabetic characters
>  o More?
> 
> The \markup command will accept all three forms, and these
> illustrate the increasing facilities available:
>  o \markup accelerando
>  o \markup "gradually speeding up"
>  o \markup {\italic {poco a poco stringendo}}
> 
> Other commands are more selective.  For example, text for
> ottava brackets can only be entered as quoted text.
> 
> etc
> 
> Trevor
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Mandereau" <address@hidden>
> To: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "lily-devel" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Quoted text (was Re: When is "-" required in
> articulations?)
> 
> 
> > On 2008/05/23, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> >> Graham Percival wrote:
> >> >
> >> > *as far as I know*, anything in lilypond that accepts "blah blah"
> >> > also accepts \markup.
> >> >   
> >> This is almost true. However, I seem to recall a few exceptions.
> >> For example, you
> >> cannot use a \markup expression as the value when you set a
> >> property in \lyricmode.
> > 
> > There is another exception: text for ottava brackets
> > (Staff.ottavation property) can only be a string, not a markup.  I
> > guess it should be easy to make it accept a markup, though.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > John
> > 
> > 
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