Re: [newbie] Some \markup stuff

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-01-14 8:58 pm, Mark Probert wrote:
> Thank you! Though the gamma thing doesn't really work in my case (I'm
> using Lilypond under org-babel ;-) ) but I did find a nice solution (it
> was in another section of documentation I hadn't gotten to.. doh!  The
> relevant section now looks lie\ke:
>
> ---< cut >---
> Gamma = \markup { \char ##x0393 }
> chant = \relative c { \clef bass g1 a b c d e }
> verba = \lyricmode { \Gamma A B C D E }
> verbb = \lyricmode {
>            \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>            ut re mi fa sol la }
> ---< cut >---
>
> and it comes out just the way I am after!

If you need more than just the one Greek letter, you can always extend 
the \paper's replacement-alist in a similar fashion to how 
include-special-characters works.  Attached is an example with most 
(though not all) Greek letters.


-- Aaron Hill

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