RE: small caps in title

[type]

Many thanks for your prompt and helpful reply -- the workaround worked 
perfectly (once I of course changed the \smallCaps in my original question to 
\caps).


Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: lilypond-user <lilypond-user-bounces+type=projectivespace.com@gnu.org> On 
Behalf Of Jean Abou Samra
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:49 AM
To: type@projectivespace.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: small caps in title

Le 19/10/2021 à 19:42, type@projectivespace.com a écrit :
> I have a quick question about formatting a title in small caps in Lilypond. 
> Although I can format scoreTitleMarkup with the usual \bold and \italic for 
> markups, I am having trouble getting \smallCaps (or \caps) to work with a 
> title retrieved by \fromproperty. The \smallCaps works fine elsewhere in the 
> scoreTitleMarkup, but not on the title that I am retrieving with 
> \fromproperty #'header:title. A tiny example is below (between the equals 
> signs). I appreciate any assistance that anyone can provide.
>
> I do know that I could provide the \smallCaps markup when I set the title, 
> but I may want to display the title in different ways in different parts of 
> the score, so I don't want to hard code the formatting into its definition.
>
> And since this is my first post to the list, I'd also like to thank everyone 
> on the Lilypond team for producing and maintaining such an amazing scoring 
> tool, and also those helpful people who reply to people's questions on the 
> lilypond-user list. I have learned a lot from reading the emails that I get 
> on this list!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Jay
>
> =========================
> \version "2.22.1"
>
> \paper {
>    scoreTitleMarkup = \markup {
>               \fill-line { \bold \italic \fromproperty #'header:title
>                            \smallCaps "Small caps work"
>                            \smallCaps \fromproperty #'header:title
>               }
>    }
> }
>
> \header { title = "The title" }
>
> { a b c }
> ===========================


Hi Jay,

This is an old bug; try the workaround proposed at

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1482#note_339750124

Kind regards,
Jean