Re: Combining graphics and text in one stencil?

[David Kastrup]

Mark Polesky <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm able to write my own graphical stencils using
> ly:make-stencil, and I also can override stencils with
> text or markup using the ly:text-interface::print
> callback, but now I want to make one stencil with
> graphics *and* text, and I can't figure out how to do
> that.
>
> Is there some way to achieve something akin to this:
> (ly:make-stencil (list 'string "foo"))
>
> That would be my preference.
>
> I experimented with
> (ly:make-stencil (list 'char ...))
>
> but I couldn't get it to do anything.  output-ps.scm is
> very difficult to follow with no docstrings.  Ugh.  Any 
> advice is appreciated.

It's called interpret-markup and you obviously need layout and props for
it.  One variant that gets them itself from a grob is
grob-interpret-markup.

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David Kastrup