Re: How do I add a small fermata?

[Paul Scott]

On 06/08/2011 11:21 PM, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> if you place the fermata as a MarkupTextScript event, you can shift it with 
> self-alignment-X:
>
> --snip--
>    \once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #-0.6
>    c^\markup { \fontsize #0 \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" }

That should not normally be necessary.  Most needs would be either a 
regular \fermata over a note or \fermataMarkup.

I should have realized that the one over a note would be a TextScript.

So

Eluze's simple answers should be all that are normally needed.

Thanks,

Paul


> --snip--
>
> If you concat the ufermata with other text, you can see, that its used extent 
> does not apply to
> its visual extent. So it will not be centered, if you set self-alignment-X to 
> 0. With fonsize = #0
> and self-alignment-X = #-0.6 it looks quite well.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan-Peter
>
>
> Am 09.06.2011 um 07:00 schrieb Paul Scott:
>
> > On 06/08/2011 09:48 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> > > Moving this back to the list.
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject:        Re: How do I add a small fermata?
> > > Date:   Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:37:41 -0400
> > > From:   Marc Mouries<address@hidden>
> > > To:     Paul Scott<address@hidden>
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Paul Scott<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > On 06/08/2011 02:32 PM, Nils wrote:
> > > How do I create a small fermata to show that it is not original but inserted by 
> > > the editor?
> > >
> > > ^\markup{ \fontsize #1 \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" }
> > >
> > > where you choose any value you want instead of #1.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Paul Scott
> > >
> > > is it normal that with the markup the fermata appears on the left side of the 
> > > note unlike the \fermata which appears right on top and centered?
> > Nils didn't say that he was talking about a fermata over a note. :)
> >
> > I looked for a while in the Internals Reference without finding how to change 
> > the font size of a fermata over a note.
> >
> > Maybe someone else can help.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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