Re: Applying a markup command to only part of a word

[Mike Stickles]

Right after I sent the question, a workaround occurred to me - using 
hspace to "erase" the unwanted space, like this:

\markup { \larger
    \column {
        \line { For my brethren and com \hspace #-0.7 \underline pan 
\hspace #-0.7 ions’ sake }
        \line { \hspace #9 I will say, \underline peace be within you! }
    }
}

But if anyone has a less "hacky" way to do this, I'd still love to hear it.


On 2/22/2019 8:50 PM, Mike Stickles wrote:
> I'm currently working on resetting some church music where only the 
> first and last three or four verses are actually scores; everything in 
> the middle is just text, with underlining used to show where the 
> "movement" comes in (every verse follows an identical pattern except 
> for the ending verses).
>
> Unfortunately, some of these have only part of the word underlined, as 
> the "movement" comes on a specific syllable. For example, in this 
> half-verse:
>
> "For my brethren and companions' sake"
>
> the vocal movement comes on the "pan" in "companions'", so I need to 
> only underline that syllable. But I have not been able to do it 
> without introducing spaces on either side of the syllable. Is there a 
> way to do this while keeping the word together?