Re: Text over fermata

[Joseph Haig]

2009/2/26 M Watts <address@hidden>:
> Joseph Haig wrote:
>>
>> I want to put a markup over a fermata but when I try this:
>>
>>  a'2\fermata^\markup { \italic lunga }
>>
>> I get the text under the fermata.  How can I force it above?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
> One way is to do it as a markup:
>
> \markup { \center-column { \italic "lunga" \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" }
> }
>

Thanks for the reply but unfortunately, this doesn't seem to align the
fermata properly above the note.  Anyway, the other reply I got does
the trick.