Re: flats and sharps as symbols in a lyric text

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Saul (et al.),

> I usually just type the accidental signs as Unicode characters. I find the 
> sizing and alignment works better than with the Lilypond markup commands.

Personally, I find the Unicode symbols unattractive, so I prefer to use 
Lilypond. Sizing and alignment are easily tweaked by predefining macros:

\version "2.19.83"

textFlat = \markup \raise #0.4 \fontsize #-2 { \hspace #0.0875 \flat }
textNatural = \markup \raise #0.625 \fontsize #-2 { \hspace #0.175 \natural }
textSharp = \markup \raise #0.75 \fontsize #-2 { \hspace #0.1 \sharp }

\markup \concat { B \textFlat " is one semitone below " B \textNatural ", and 
two semitones below " B \textSharp }

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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