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3.1.5 Adding text
Text may be added to your scores:
\relative { c''2^"espr" a_"legato" }
Extra formatting may be added with the \markup
command:1
\relative { c''2^\markup { \bold espr } a2_\markup { \dynamic f \italic \small { 2nd } \hspace #0.1 \dynamic p } }
See also
Notation Reference: Writing text.
Footnotes
(1)
Users of right-to-left scripts like Hebrew or
Arabic should replace \markup { ... }
with \markup
\override #'(text-direction . LEFT) \line { ... }
. Within
double quotes, however, this is not necessary since LilyPond can
automatically recognize the writing direction.