Re: Beginners first attempt

[Paul Scott]

Colin Wilding wrote:
> Yes, I see your point.
>
> What I meant, though, was that you cannot attach the markup *directly* to a
> variable, e.g. as
>
>  \gDown^\markup{ .. }
>
> at least, I don't think you can.  It didn't work for me with the \downbow
> anyway.
>   
I agree.

<< { } { } >>  allowed me a lot of freedom in creating musical shortcuts.

The next problem I sometimes miss is the ability to add a slur to a 
shortcut in a similar manner.

Paul