to a score, as demonstrated in the following example.
Such indications can be manually placed
above or below the staff, using the
-simple syntax described in @ref{Direction and
+syntax described in @ref{Direction and
placement}.
@lilypond[quote,fragment,ragged-right,verbatim,relative=1]
spacing, whereas the second one does.
@lilypond[quote,fragment,ragged-right,verbatim,relative=1]
-d8^"pizz." e f g \textLengthOn a4_"scherzando" f
+d8^"pizz." e f g
+\textLengthOn
+a4_"scherzando" f
@end lilypond
@predefined
@cindex Text spanners
Some performance indications, e.g., @i{rallentando} or
-@i{accelerando}, are written as text and are extended over many
-measures with dotted lines.
+@i{accelerando}, are written as text and are extended over
+multiple notes with dotted lines.
Such objects, called @q{spanners}, may be created
from one note to another using the following syntax:
c4\mark "Allegro" c c c
@end lilypond
-This syntax makes possible to put any text on a bar line;
+This syntax makes it possible to put any text on a bar line;
more complex text formatting may be added using a @code{\markup}
block, as described in @ref{Formatting text}. This can be used to print
signs like coda, segno or fermata, by specifying the appropriate
@end lilypond
@noindent
-This allows to print text separately
+This allows printing text separately
from the music, which is particularly
useful when the input file contains
several music pieces, as described in
@node Common markup commands
@subsubsection Common markup commands
-Markup text may be formatted using simple commands.
+Markup text may be formatted in different ways.
@cindex font switching
@funindex \italic
@lilypond[quote,verbatim,relative=2]
{
d1^\markup {
- \bold { Più mosso }
- \italic { non troppo \underline Vivo }
- }
+ \bold { Più mosso }
+ \italic { non troppo \underline Vivo }
+ }
r2 r4 r8
d,_\markup { \italic quasi \smallCaps Tromba }
f1 d2 r
{
f1^\markup { \fontsize #5 Sinfonia }
a,_\markup {
- \tiny espressivo
- \large e
- \normalsize intenso
- }
+ \tiny espressivo
+ \large e
+ \normalsize intenso
+ }
bes^\markup { (con
- \larger grande
- \smaller emozione
- \magnify #0.6 { e sentimento } )
- }
+ \larger grande
+ \smaller emozione
+ \magnify #0.6 { e sentimento } )
+ }
d c2 r8 c bes a g1
}
@end lilypond
Defining custom font sets is also possible, as explained in
-@ref{Fonts}.
-
-An exhaustive list of font-switching, font-size and font-families related
-commands can be found in @ref{Font}.
+@ref{Fonts}. An exhaustive list of font-switching, font-size
+and font-families related commands can be found in @ref{Font}.
@c TODO: add @seealso