Re: rounded-box vs. box in text markup

[Emilio Millan]

Robert, Federico, and Harm: Thank you so much for your help! All your
suggestions worked very well. I'm playing with them now to decide
which is the best for my document.

Everybody: My apologies for accidentally sending my question to the list twice!

Regards,
Emilio

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Morley
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2018-03-28 14:23 GMT+02:00 Emilio Millan <address@hidden>:
>> Hi all. I'm a fairly new user so I may be missing something obvious.
>>
>> In the following example, is there a way to "snug up" the rounded
>> boxes over the second note so that they are vertically spaced like the
>> boxes over the first note?
>>
>> \version "2.19.80"
>> {
>>   f''2^\markup{\box "1"}^\markup{\box "2"}^\markup{\box "3"}
>>   f''2^\markup{\rounded-box "1"}^\markup{\rounded-box
>> "2"}^\markup{\rounded-box "3"}
>> }
>>
>> I know I can override box-padding to make the rounded boxes smaller,
>> but I don't know how to change the space between them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Emilio
>
>
>
> Your best bet is probably to use a column-markup (or center-column,
> dir-column ...) and apply the same box-padding for \box and
> \rounded-box (per default it's different).
> Then you could override baseline-skip to fit your needs.
>
> {
>   f''1
>     ^\markup
>       \override #'(baseline-skip . 4)
>       \column
>         \override #'(box-padding . 0.2)
>         \rounded-box { 1 2 3 }
>   f''1
>     ^\markup
>       \override #'(baseline-skip . 4)
>       \column
>         \override #'(box-padding . 0.2)
>         \box { 1 2 3 }
> }
>
> Though, I've no clue why the rounded-boxes are further away from Staff.
>
> I just filed a bug-report about it.
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Possible-regression-with-box-markup-rounded-box-markup-td211212.html
>
> HTH,
>   Harm