Re: Function to add a "-" before finger number

[James Bailey]

You probably want to center align it over the number, right? That's a bit more 
complex.
On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:07 PM, James Bailey wrote:

> you can left, center, or right align the markup. I'm pretty sure that the 
> default is to center-align it.
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Antheo wrote:
> 
>> 
>> great i added the \finger command to use the same font as the regular
>> fingering.
>> shiftII  = \markup \finger \concat {\char ##x2012 2} 
>> 
>> Now the dash moves the number way too far on the right. I tried to move it
>> back to the left by adding an override but i got an error
>> 
>> shiftIII = \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-1 . 0) \markup
>> \finger \concat {\char ##x2012 3}
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> James Bailey-4 wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is that them em or en dash? On a macintosh, I would just type them
>>> directly, either – or —, if you absolutely have to use the unicode, I
>>> would do it:
>>> 
>>> \version "2.12.3"
>>> 
>>> shiftTwo=\markup \finger "–2"
>>> shiftThree = \markup \concat {\char ##x2012 3} 
>>> 
>>> { a4-\shiftTwo g-\shiftThree}
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Antheo wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> James Bailey-4 wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I realize it's not exactly what you want, but what about:
>>>>> \version "2.12.3"
>>>>> shiftTwo=\markup \finger "-2"
>>>>> { c''4-\shiftTwo }
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yep not exactly but could be a workaround. I'd like to replace the short
>>>> "-"
>>>> by a middle one like with the character \char ##x2012. I tried this 
>>>> shiftIV=\markup \finger "\char ##x2012 4"
>>>> but that printed the command and not the character.
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea how to make the function more generic? I tried 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> sf = #(define-music-function (parser location finger) ( integer? ) #{
>>>>  \mark \markup { \tiny \concat {\char ##x2012 $finger }}
>>>> #})
>>>> 
>>>> {c''4^\sf#3 d''4^\sf#4}
>>>> 
>>>> but it failed.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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