Re: Creating a ://: repeat mark?

[Marc Hohl]

Matthew Vernon schrieb:
> Marc Hohl writes:
>  > Matthew Vernon schrieb:
>  > > M Watts writes:
>  > >  > On 07/02/2010 09:58 AM, M Watts wrote:
>
>  > \markup { { \italic: } \hspace #-1.25 "/" \hspace #-1.25 "/" \hspace 
>  > #-1.25 { \italic : }}
>
> That's pretty good, although the :'s could ideally be vertically
> centered with respect to the slashes; might that be possible too?
>   
I don't know whether there is a generic solution, but you can use \raise:
\markup {  \raise #0.25 { \italic : } \hspace #-1.25 "/" \hspace #-1.25 
"/" \hspace #-1.25 \raise #0.25 { \italic : }}

Marc
> Many thanks for all the help,
>
> Matthew
>
>