Re: Rendering Two Dots Above a Character

[Omid Mo'menzadeh]

This is now my solution of choice, since it's clean and scales to other use cases.

Thank you for all the effort you put into this.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:56 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Omid,
Of course this can also be done.
Cheers,
Valentin

Am Dienstag, 25. Jänner 2022, 18:45:54 CET schrieb Omid Mo'menzadeh:
> Wow! Although I'd want to have the two dots vertically aligned, this great
> help! I really wanted to know how to use _expression_ marks on text, and the
> Ttablature format code is nice to have as an example for similar situations.
> Thank you so much.
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:31 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
> > Hello Omid,
> >
> > Maybe something like this could work.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Valentin
> >
> > Am Montag, 24. Jänner 2022, 20:56:11 CET schrieb Omid Mo'menzadeh:
> > > Hello all.
> > > I am trying to create some sort of tablature for Kalimba, treating it
> >
> > like
> >
> > > a one-string instrument with fret-labels. I want to use letters like c,
> >
> > ċ,
> >
> > > ċ̇ (or c𐽉), etc. I figured there are Unicode characters to do exactly
> > > that, "combining dot above" and "combining two dots above", etc.
> > > However,
> > > LilyPond does not seem to be able to render "combining two dots above",
> >
> > and
> >
> > > two "combining dot above" characters (rendered correctly by my browser,
> >
> > as
> >
> > > well as Emacs) result in the two dots to be rendered almost on top of
> >
> > each
> >
> > > other in LilyPond. I have attached a rather minimal example.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any other solutions to this problem, or a way to fix
> >
> > the
> >
> > > rendering issue.
> > >
> > > Thanks everyone.