Re: Numbered musical notation (Jianpu)

[Silas Brown]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:09:42PM -0600, Andrew Hawryluk wrote:
> Have you tried \textLengthOn? See Notation Reference 1.8.1

Thanks.  Although \textLengthOn at the beginning of the music solves the problem
of the jianpu, it also creates other problems (e.g. the word "cantabile" under
the first note of a bar pushes all the other notes to the right leaving a big
space).  It does not seem possible to insert \textLengthOn and \textLengthOff
around each markup command; you can put them before and after the note as a
whole, but how can you say you want the "cantabile" to be textLengthOff and the
jianpu to be textLengthOn when they're on the same note?

Incidentally I also tried writing the jianpu notation as figured bass with
\markup in it, but this didn't work very well because (a) rests are not allowed
to have figured bass over them and (b) if you don't want the height to be
adjusted then you have to let the figured bass go below the stave not above.

Thanks again.    Silas

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