Re: Placing text marks next to a note?

[Jean Brefort]

Hi Alasdair,

You might start from the attached file provided by Nicolas Sceaux. I
did not test recently but with a previous version I had to play with
the code to add space when a mordent just follows a bar line. I used it
to edit the gamba part of Morel's chaconne a few years ago. I am not
currently at home and I don't have a sample code at hand.

Hope this helps,
Jean

Le dimanche 23 août 2020 à 17:31 +1000, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit :
> I have created a small markup command for an ornament, which appears
> in engraved music of its time as a small "x", meaning a lower
> mordent.  Another common ornament would be written as a sort of large
> comma, and this meant a trill, starting on the upper note, and
> increasing in speed.  This is for late 17th and early 18th century
> French music for the viola da gamba.
> 
> The point is that these ornaments should go next to the notes to
> which they refer, and not necessarily above or below the staff. 
>  This little example of a few bars indicate some of the difficulties,
> taken from the 4th book of "Pièces de Violes" by Marin Marais,
> published in Paris in 1717:
> 
> 
> 
> You'll see various bowing marks (actually there's only one used here:
> "e", which stands for the French "enfler": "swelling"; that is, a
> bow-stroke without the customary "attack"), x's and commas for
> ornaments, numbers with dots indicating fingers and which string, and
> next to the double-stopped d and f-sharp in the third and final bars
> what looks like a broken cross; this is a "barre", indicating a
> single finger laid over two or more strings at once.  
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to retain as much as possible of this
> notation in Lilypond.  I could probably bodge up quite a lot of this
> if there was some way of placing expressions next to the notes
> themselves - but I can't find out how to do that.  
> 
> Any advice would be gratefully received!
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Alasdair
>

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