Re: Overlapping Characters in markup

[Nathan Ho]

On 2016-12-22 20:10, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> If I wish to create a markup command that combines two characters from
> different fonts (the normal Roman font of the file and another font
> which provides special glyphs) in an overlapping fashion, how would I
> go about doing that?
>
> Thus far I have the following which has both characters, but no 
> overlap:
>
> [...]

Hi Samuel,

\combine will overlay characters, and \translate lets you nudge things 
around to get them aligned properly.

\markup { \combine V \translate #'(0.3 . 0.4) \override #'(font-name . 
"greextra")  }


Nathan