Re: Placing text marks next to a note?

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello Alasdair,

Sooner or later you should grapple with doing these gamba signs 
properly. There's some articles by Nicolas Sceaux on the lilypond blog 
on how to go about it.

http://lilypondblog.org

I could give a hand if you so require.


Andrew


On 23/08/2020 5:31 pm, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> 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: