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Text scripts

In addition, it is possible to place arbitrary strings of text or markup text (see Text markup) above or below notes by using a string: c^"text".

By default, these indications do not influence the note spacing, but by using the command \fatText, the widths will be taken into account.

     \relative c' {
     c4^"longtext" \fatText c4_"longlongtext" c4 }
     
[picture of music]

It is possible to use TeX commands in the strings, but this should be avoided because it makes it impossible for LilyPond to compute the exact length of the string, which may lead to collisions. Also, TeX commands won't work with direct PostScript output.

Text scripts are created in form of TextScript objects, in Voice context. Text markup describes how to change the font or access special symbols in text scripts.

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