Re: Lyrics in color

[Thomas Morley]

2012/7/2 Aleksandr Andreev <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Did you try
>>
>>     \addlyrics { \markup \concat { L\with-color #red a } }
>>
>
> That worked, thanks!
>
> Now I have another question ... this one is a bit from left field. Is
> it possible to color a diacritical mark (accent) without breaking the
> OpenType positioning rules in the font? This example does not work:
>
> \relative c' { f2 }
> \addlyrics { \markup \concat { B\with-color #red ́ } }
> \addlyrics { B́ }
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>       \Lyrics
>       \override LyricText #'font-name = #"Times New Roman"
>     }
> }
>
> Why is this important? It would need to be possible to support
> Znamenny neumatic notation, as in the following example, done in
> Finale:  http://ecmr.t5.fi/Transcripta/KalSamogl.pdf (except that
> Finale does not support this -- the modifier marks on the neumes,
> e.g., the н, р, etc) need to be in red, not black.
>
> Aleksandr
>
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Hi Aleksandr,

perhaps you might be interested in this thread:

http://old.nabble.com/Change-color-for-some-symbols-in-a-sylable-ts33109797.html#a33109797



Cheers,
  Harm