Re: Swing indications in text markup?

[Benjamin Esham]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Paul Scott wrote:

> David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
>
> > On Friday 06 August 2004 03:43 pm, Benjamin Esham wrote:
> >
> > > I am typesetting a piece which has some "swing" sections.  In these
> > > sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter
> > > note and eighth note.
> >
> > A swing or jazz 8th is far less different from an 8th
> > than a triplet, or even than a quintuplet 3:2.  Experiment
> > with very small time values now, it will save you time.
>
> Yes but Benjamin's choice is already well established as a printing
> convention for a style indication (at least in concert band music) 
> whether
> it's technically correct or not.  Most of us reading it get the point.

Thanks all for your responses.  In this specific case, I wrote a piece
that, while not really jazz, has a section in which two eighths should 
be
played as a tripletted quarter note and eighth note.  (Conventions be
damned-- I wrote it that way! ;-))

Anyway, I'm still looking for a way to typeset the swing indication.  I
played around a little with nesting a \score in a \markup, but even 
after
a bunch of tweaking, the result looked... well, like crap.  Are there 
any
easier/cleaner methods, or should I just keep playing around with it?

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