Re: Easily enter music expressions in markup for Swing / shuffle music

[David Wright]

On Sun 24 Nov 2019 at 17:08:14 (+0000), address@hidden wrote:
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1029
> This reminds me that every thing is easy when we know how and often 
> impossible when we do not know how.
> I tried to find a swing tempo marking in snippets and didn't find one.
> I tried using this 'easy example' and this is the best I could do:
> 
> %%%%%%
> markup { \small {  \note #"8" #UP + \note #"8" #UP =
>                       \note #"4" #UP + \note #"8" #UP }}
> 
> 
> % Or maybe
> 
> \markup{ \small { \note #"8" #UP + \note #"8" #UP "="  \note #"4" #UP \note 
> #"8" #UP }}
> 
> %%%%%%%
> 
> I am clueless on how to add the triplet bracket to the top
> as this didn't work
> %%%%%%
> %trying to put this in the above markup didn't work
>  \tuplet 3/2 { c d}
> \tuplet 3/2 { \note #"4" #UP \note #"8" #UP}
> 
> %%%%%%%
> so using Frescabaldi / Lilypond I exported the required element as SVG and 
> using inkscape created these images (see attachmenbts)
> 
> 
> 
> %%%%%also I found mention of    EZNOTES...  versus   \ezscore confusing?  in 
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1029

I use scores in the markup. Here's an example; it happens to be in the
\tagline for pagination reasons. (\heading looks like a misnomer, but
it contains the date, and heads the source file.)

\header {
  title = \markup { "TTTTT TTTTT TTTTT" }
  tagline = \markup {
    \vspace #2
    \smaller
    \fill-line {
      \heading
      \concat {
        \italic "Swing"
        \score { { \set fontSize = #-4 \override Stem.length-fraction = #0.65 
\stopStaff a'8[ a'] } \layout { \context { \Staff \omit Clef \omit 
TimeSignature } } }
        "  ="
        \score { { \set fontSize = #-4 \override Stem.length-fraction = #0.65 
\stopStaff \tuplet 3/2 { a'8~ \noBeam a' \noBeam a' } } \layout { \context { 
\Staff \omit Clef \omit TimeSignature } } } }
      \concat { "LilyPond version " $(lilypond-version) }
    }
  }
}

Cheers,
David.