Re: [Denemo-devel] how to use superscripts in textual annotation directive?

[Lets Eat Hay]

Both your solutions work great for me, thank you!

I found that I couldn't type the Section Sign § directly into the Denemo dialog boxes. (I'm using 1.1.4 for Windows.) I don't have a § key on my keyboard, so I have to use Alt+21 or Alt+0167 to type it, but the dialog boxes don't accept those for some reason. But I was able to type the character in Notepad and then copy/paste it into the Denemo dialog.

Your suggestion to Advanced-edit a standalone Textual Annotation directive works great too, and it avoids the § issue for me. I have some experience with LilyPond syntax, so this is fine.

For anyone else who might read this, the LilyPond documentation for \super and other text markup syntax is here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/formatting-text

Thanks again!

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:11 AM, Richard Shann wrote:

Sorry, I notice I switched to giving the example "A" as Roman Numeral
"I" is rendered looking like "l" and "1" in some typefaces ...

I§\super 6§

is for the example you asked about.

Richard

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 09:29 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 22:26 -0700, Lets Eat Hay wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to add roman numeral analysis symbols to my score, and I'm
> > trying to use Directives > Markings > Textual Annotation to do it. But
> > I can't figure out an easy way to format superscripts, such as to
> > denote chord inversions.
> >
> > For example, I want a roman numeral "I" with a superscript "6" (to
> > represent the first inversion of the tonic chord). I've tried setting
> > the annotation text to "I \super 6" and "I^6", but the text I enter
> > just gets used literally.
> >
> > Or is there a better way to do this than using textual annotation
> > directives?
>
> Well, I notice that if you use Notes/Rests->Markings->Text With
> Positioning then you can use the paragraph sign to escape into the
> markup language where \super means superscript:
> That is:
>
> A§\super 1§
>
> I discovered this by getting up this command and using it to paste a
> snippet, (View->Snippets) and then examining how it does the snippet -
> it surrounds it with § .... §
>
> The question is, is this good enough? It's a bit techie, you need to
> read up LilyPond's markup language where \super is documented ...
> And, can it be done with the standalone text command you were using
> (this command attaches the markup to the note, which has good and bad
> aspects...)
>
> Coming shortly in Denemo is the ability to place any sort of text or
> graphics on the score ... it would be a bit overkill for such simple
> things as this, but for those who are not techie enough to not panic at
> a backslash it could be good.
>
> If you are reasonably techie you could create a Textual Annotation
> directive, then right click go to Advanced and edit the first box to
> read as you would like (that is you can just edit the markup directly).
> For example, using Textual Annotation and putting "A" as the text I get
>
> ^\markup \bold \italic {"A" }
>
> in the first ("postfix") field. This is the LilyPond syntax which you
> can edit to be
>
> ^\markup \bold \italic {"A" \super "1"}
>
> and ok that... (Or you can do the same in the LilyPond window).
>
> I have a feeling that I haven't implemented the § .... § for doing that
> directly in the command though :(
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > P.S. I've been using Denemo for just a short time, and it's extremely
> > impressive so far!
>
> Thank you! What version do you have?
>
> Richard

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