<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- header_tag --> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>text-interface - LilyPond program-reference</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="LilyPond program-reference"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.11"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Graphical-Object-Interfaces.html#Graphical-Object-Interfaces" title="Graphical Object Interfaces"> <link rel="prev" href="tablature_002dinterface.html#tablature_002dinterface" title="tablature-interface"> <link rel="next" href="text_002dscript_002dinterface.html#text_002dscript_002dinterface" title="text-script-interface"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } hr { border:0; height:1; color: #000000; background-color: #000000; } /* hr { border: none; height: 1px; color: #666666; background-color: #666666; } body { border-left: 1px solid #666666; border-right: 1px solid #666666; color: #332d28; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; width: 60em; list-style-type: square; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em; } a { border-bottom: 1px dashed #344242; text-decoration: none; color: #344242; } a:link { text-decoration: none; } a:visited { border-bottom: 1px dashed #666666; color: #666666; } a:active { border-bottom: 1px solid #00cccc; color: #00cccc; } a:hover { border-bottom: 1px solid #1d7b85; color: #1d7b85; } blockquote { border: 1px solid #cccccc; padding: 3px; width: 40em; } .node { border-left: 1px solid #666666; margin: -0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 2px 1px 0px; font-style: italic; } .node a { border: none; text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; } .verbatim { font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; } .unnumberedsubsubsec { font-size: large; color: #1d7b85; } .subsubheading { font-size: large; color: #3b220d; } .contents { border: 1px dashed #339999; margin: 3px 2em; list-style-type: square; padding-right: 1em; width: 40em; background-color: #fcfff9; } .contents a { border-bottom: 1px dashed #423d34; text-decoration: none; color: #423d34; } .contents a:visited { border-bottom: 1px dashed #666666; color: #666666; } .contents a:active { border-bottom: 1px solid #f0d86d; color: #f0d86d; } .contents a:hover { border-bottom: 1px solid #3b220d; color: #3b220d; } .menu { border-left: 1px dashed #339999; margin: 3px 2em 1em; list-style-type: square; padding-left: 1.4em; width: 40em; } .unnumbered { } h2 { font-size: x-large; color: #1d7b85; } */ --></style> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE TEXT=BLACK> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="text-interface"></a> <a name="text_002dinterface"></a> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="text_002dscript_002dinterface.html#text_002dscript_002dinterface">text-script-interface</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="tablature_002dinterface.html#tablature_002dinterface">tablature-interface</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Graphical-Object-Interfaces.html#Graphical-Object-Interfaces">Graphical Object Interfaces</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="unnumberedsubsec">text-interface</h4> <p>A Scheme markup text, see <a href="../lilypond/Formatting-text.html#Formatting-text">Formatting text</a> <a name="index-Formatting-text-22"></a> and <a href="../lilypond/New-markup-command-definition.html#New-markup-command-definition">New markup command definition</a> <a name="index-New-markup-command-definition-23"></a>. <p>There are two important commands: <code>ly:text-interface::print</code>, which is a grob callback, and <code>ly:text-interface::interpret-markup</code>. <h5 class="unnumberedsubsubsec">User settable properties:</h5> <blockquote> <dl> <dt><code>baseline-skip</code> (dimension, in staff space)<dd>Distance between base lines of multiple lines of text. <br><dt><code>text</code> (markup)<dd>Text markup. See <a href="../lilypond/Formatting-text.html#Formatting-text">Formatting text</a> <a name="index-Formatting-text-24"></a>. <br><dt><code>text-direction</code> (direction)<dd>This controls the ordering of the words. The default <code>RIGHT</code> is for roman text. Arabic or Hebrew should use <code>LEFT</code>. <br><dt><code>word-space</code> (dimension, in staff space)<dd>Space to insert between words in texts. </dl> </blockquote> <p>This grob interface is used in the following graphical object(s): <a href="BalloonTextItem.html#BalloonTextItem">BalloonTextItem</a>, <a href="BarNumber.html#BarNumber">BarNumber</a>, <a href="BassFigure.html#BassFigure">BassFigure</a>, <a href="BreathingSign.html#BreathingSign">BreathingSign</a>, <a href="ChordName.html#ChordName">ChordName</a>, <a href="CombineTextScript.html#CombineTextScript">CombineTextScript</a>, <a href="DoublePercentRepeatCounter.html#DoublePercentRepeatCounter">DoublePercentRepeatCounter</a>, <a href="DynamicText.html#DynamicText">DynamicText</a>, <a href="DynamicTextSpanner.html#DynamicTextSpanner">DynamicTextSpanner</a>, <a href="Fingering.html#Fingering">Fingering</a>, <a href="LyricText.html#LyricText">LyricText</a>, <a href="MetronomeMark.html#MetronomeMark">MetronomeMark</a>, <a href="MultiMeasureRestNumber.html#MultiMeasureRestNumber">MultiMeasureRestNumber</a>, <a href="MultiMeasureRestText.html#MultiMeasureRestText">MultiMeasureRestText</a>, <a href="NoteName.html#NoteName">NoteName</a>, <a href="OctavateEight.html#OctavateEight">OctavateEight</a>, <a href="OttavaBracket.html#OttavaBracket">OttavaBracket</a>, <a href="PercentRepeatCounter.html#PercentRepeatCounter">PercentRepeatCounter</a>, <a href="RehearsalMark.html#RehearsalMark">RehearsalMark</a>, <a href="SostenutoPedal.html#SostenutoPedal">SostenutoPedal</a>, <a href="StanzaNumber.html#StanzaNumber">StanzaNumber</a>, <a href="StringNumber.html#StringNumber">StringNumber</a>, <a href="StrokeFinger.html#StrokeFinger">StrokeFinger</a>, <a href="SustainPedal.html#SustainPedal">SustainPedal</a>, <a href="TabNoteHead.html#TabNoteHead">TabNoteHead</a>, <a href="TextScript.html#TextScript">TextScript</a>, <a href="TupletNumber.html#TupletNumber">TupletNumber</a>, <a href="UnaCordaPedal.html#UnaCordaPedal">UnaCordaPedal</a> and <a href="VoltaBracket.html#VoltaBracket">VoltaBracket</a>. <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="text_002dinterface"></a> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="text_002dscript_002dinterface.html#text_002dscript_002dinterface">text-script-interface</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="tablature_002dinterface.html#tablature_002dinterface">tablature-interface</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Graphical-Object-Interfaces.html#Graphical-Object-Interfaces">Graphical Object Interfaces</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> </BODY></html>