Re: Tricky tweak

[David Sumbler]

On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 22:00 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 04.11.2016 00:32, David Sumbler wrote:
> > 
> > It certainly does help!  I had not realized that the '-' that goes
> > before the tweak is additional to, and does not replace, the '-'
> > (or
> > '^' or '_') before the object.
> At some point, the markup needs to be turned into a post event
> attached 
> to a note by -_^, whether you append it directly or through a tweak
> (the 
> third argument to the \tweak music function must be of type music).
> 
> So the following works as well:
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.19.47"
> 
> nonsf = -\markup { \larger \italic "(non " \dynamic sf \larger
> \italic ")" }
> pizz = -\markup { \larger \italic "pizz." }
> 
> {
>    e'
>    _\tweak self-alignment-X #CENTER
>    \tweak parent-alignment-X #CENTER
>    \nonsf
>    ^\pizz
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> Best, Simon

Thank you - that has clarified something that has never before been
clear to me.

David