Re: String pressure notation

[Dimitri Sykias]

Is it possible to make the text italic?
I tried  \tweak text \italic “x” and it didn’t work.
Thanks

> On 16 Apr 2024, at 2:17 PM, Archer Endrich <archerhgm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Aaron.  I'm absolutely delighted to know how to do this now as it 
> occurs in several of my earlier scores that I'm re-engraving with Lilypond.
> 
> Archer
> 
> 
> On 16/04/2024 12:03, Aaron Hill wrote:
>> On 2024-04-16 3:59 am, Aaron Hill wrote:
>>> What you are looking for, however, can be done with horizontal/analysis 
>>> brackets:
>>> 
>>> %%%%
>>> \version "2.25.13"
>>> 
>>> \new Voice
>>> \with { \consists Horizontal_bracket_engraver }
>>> {
>>>   b'4
>>>   -\tweak layer 0
>>>   -\tweak direction #UP
>>>   -\tweak bracket-flare #'(0 . 0)
>>>   -\tweak HorizontalBracketText.Y-offset -0.5
>>>   -\tweak HorizontalBracketText.text
>>>     \markup \whiteout \pad-around #0.5 "9\""
>>>   -\startGroup 4 2\stopGroup
>>> }
>>> %%%%
>> 
>> Oh, and if you need the brackets to align to the measures and not notes, 
>> then the Measure_spanner_engraver is what you probably want.
>> 
>> 
>> -- Aaron Hill
>