in Snippets - LilyPond

Tweaks and overrides 394
Changing text and spanner styles for text dynamics
The text used for crescendos and decrescendos can be changed by modifying the context properties
crescendoText and decrescendoText.
The style of the spanner line can be changed by modifying the 'style property of
DynamicTextSpanner. The default value is 'dashed-line, and other possible values include
'line, 'dotted-line and 'none.
\relative c'' {
\set crescendoText = \markup { \italic { cresc. poco } }
\set crescendoSpanner = #'text
\override DynamicTextSpanner #'style = #'dotted-line
a2\< a
a2 a
a2 a
a2 a\mf
}
cresc. poco mf
Changing the default text font family
The default font families for text can be overridden with make-pango-font-tree.
\paper {
% change for other default global staff size.
myStaffSize = #20
%{
run
lilypond -dshow-available-fonts blabla
to show all fonts available in the process log.
%}
#(define fonts
(make-pango-font-tree "Times New Roman"
"Nimbus Sans"
"Luxi Mono"
;; "Helvetica"
;; "Courier"
(/ myStaffSize 20)))
}
\relative c'' {
c4^\markup {
roman: foo \bold bla \italic bar \italic \bold baz
}
c'4_\markup {
\override #'(font-family . sans)
{
sans: foo \bold bla \italic bar \italic \bold baz
}