Re: feta in text

[Paul Scott]

David Bobroff wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:12, Steve D wrote:
>  
>
> > David Bobroff wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I'm sure this question has been answered already.  I did try searching
> > > the mail archives, but perhaps my search criteria were not clever
> > > enough.
> > >
> > > How does one include feta glyphs in text?  Specifically, I want to be
> > > able to indicate an instrument name: Trumpet in Bb.  I want to have a
> > > real flat symbol, not "B-flat" or Big B little b as in my example.
> > >      
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond.html
> >
> > Search on the page for:
> > \flat
> >
> > -sd
> >    
>
> Ok, I went there and found the reference you indicated.  I tried
> processing just that example from the docs and got errors.  Furthermore,
> it is not quite what I'm looking for.  What I'd like to do is use
> something like:
>
> \header{
>         instrument = "Trumpet in B" \flat
> }
>  
AFAIK you need to wrap that in \markup.

instrument = \markup{ Trumpet in B\flat }

That worked for me.

Paul Scott