Re: Using strings and other types to return markup

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 05/11/2016 11:58 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> I didn't think it was really a tilde either, but it just seemed to
> make a close approximation.  Attached is my LilyPond approximation of
> that section of the madrigal.

It is a tilde; the tilde derives precisely from the scriptural 
abbreviation for elided characters (not always n).

At <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde > you can find a list of 
the Unicode precomposed characters (copy and paste them if you don’t 
feel like figuring out how to type them).

The Unicode character “combining tilde” can be used to put a tilde over 
arbitrary preceding characters; for example, c◌̃ may show as c-with-tilde 
in your mail.

You can enter arbitrary Unicode characters in LilyPond with e.g.

\char ##x0303

for the combining tilde.

~Chris
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