Re: Flat symbol in instrument header line?

[Toby Dylan Hocking]

Dear Jan, Mats, and the rest of the lilypond team,

Both of your pieces of advice helped. I was able to successfully get 
flat symbol how I wanted it to look in the instrument header line with 
this code:

\header{
title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
instrument = \markup{ Saxophone in B \smaller \smaller \smaller \flat }
}

I had to include three `\smaller' commands, else the symbol was printed 
awkwardly large. Which is fine for me now that I know how. But you may 
wish to consider some more intuitive way of implementing this.

Best regards,
Toby




Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Toby Dylan Hocking writes:
>
>  
>
> > I recently have started using Lilypond to typeset music. Most
> > functions seem to be straightforward and intuitive. Thanks for this
> > great piece of free software.
> >    
>
> Thanks!
>
>  
>
> > However, I have one problem, which I suspect is a bug.
> >
> > I use the following segment in my input file:
> >
> > \header{
> >         title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
> >         composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
> >         instrument = "Saxophone in E\flat"
> > }
> >    
>
> You may try:
>
>    \header{
>            title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
>            composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
>            instrument = \markup { "Saxophone in E" \flat }
>    }
>
>    {
>      c
>    }
>
>  
>
> > It seems that this must be a bug. If not, tell me what I am doing
> > wrong
> >    
>
> I'm not sure, this may be a documentation or compatibility bug; the
> \flat macro must be explicitely defined by including feta16.tex to be
> used in a TeX string.
>
> Jan.
>
>  




Mats Bengtsson wrote:

As is described at the bottom of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Creating-titles.html#Creating-titles
the title fields can either be specified as ordinary text strings
or using \markup{...}. Take a look at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html#Text-markup
and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Overview-of-text-markup-commands.html#Overview-of-text-markup-commands
to learn how to produce the desired instrument name.


  /Mats


Quoting Toby Dylan Hocking <address@hidden>:


> > To whom it may concern,
> >
> > I recently have started using Lilypond to typeset music. Most functions
> > seem to be straightforward and intuitive. Thanks for this great piece of
> > free software. However, I have one problem, which I suspect is a bug.
> >
> > I use the following segment in my input file:
> >
> > \header{
> >         title = "Surfin' U.S.S.R."
> >         composer = "Toby Dylan Hocking"
> >         instrument = "Saxophone in E\flat"
> > }
> >
> > I get the following messages at runtime:
> >
> > GNU LilyPond 2.4.5
> > Processing `surfinussr-eflat.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > Interpreting music... [8][16][24][25]
> > Preprocessing graphical objects...
> > Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][25]
> > Layout output to `surfinussr-eflat.tex'...
> > Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.dvi'...
> > Error invoking `latex \\nonstopmode \\input surfinussr-eflat.tex >
> > /dev/null 2>&1 '. Return value 256
> > Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.ps'...
> > Converting to `surfinussr-eflat.pdf'...
> >
> > There are two symptoms of the problem:
> >
> > 1. The "Error invoking..." runtime message
> >
> > 2. The output .pdf file is produced off center (see attached pdf)
> >
> > I have figured out the problem is invoking `\flat' in the instrument
> > line, because the problem goes away if I change it to `-flat'.
> >
> > I am running Lilypond 2.4.5 on SunOS 5.8.
> >
> > It seems that this must be a bug. If not, tell me what I am doing wrong
> > and how I can typeset the flat symbol in the instrument header line.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> > Toby Dylan Hocking
> > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/
>  




--
Sincerely,
Toby Dylan Hocking
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tdhock/