Just as I was trying to formulate a request for some additional feature related to Super and Sub I saw Joram's mail, the first of this thread, with which I very much agree.
So maybe I can use this thread to ask for the following:
In comments accompanying some scores I feel a need for BC figures, as shown in these screenshot:. (typeset with ConTeXt, Im not sure this feature exists in LaTeX)
and 
Would this be doable in LilyPond ? A sort of unattached Super-Sub couple (and triple)
If not, could it somehow be added to its immense reservoir of features? (Preferably with LilyPonds own accidentals and perhaps the BC-font.)
Best regards,
Robert Blackstone
On 6 Feb 2016, at 20:58 , Noeck <address@hidden> wrote:
Dear all,
in a recent question on this list [1] about \super in markup text, all
three replies suggested to tweak the vertical position of superscripts
by hand because the default is obviously too high.
I compared the Lilypond result of \super and \sub to the equivalents in
LaTeX (because who would doubt that LaTeX is wrong in such a question)
and indeed LaTeX makes a different choice when using \textsuperscript
and \textsubscript.
Of course LilyPond's emphasis is on beautiful music notation, but I
think also text parts of scores should look good. Therefore, I would
like to propose the following change to scm/define-markup-commands.scm:
- raise the superscript by 0.8 instead of 1.0
- lower the subscript by -0.4 instead of -0.75
The result can be seen in the attached figures:
- latex.png shows how LaTeX would format it
- lily.png shows the LilyPond default (Lilypond) and the above proposal
If you agree and there are chances to get this into LilyPond, I would
prepare a patch.
Best,
Joram
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00113.html
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