Hi, The post-2.18 changes to the default handling of articulations in MIDI (without using articulate.ly) are currently mentioned only near the bottom of the Changes document. The options available for customizing the behavior deserve (in my opinion) a place in the NR so that the documentation remains discoverable and does not get lost when the Changes document is eventually replaced with a new version.
I have also the following questions about the current information in the Changes document to which I don't know the answers myself. * Are the names of the new properties (midiLength and midiExtraVelocity) which control the behavior of articulations correct in the Changes document? Searching the files in the source tree for either of these strings produces no hits outside the Changes document; the definitions of the articulations in ly/script-init.ly (mentioned in the Changes document as a source for examples) use the names midi-length and midi-extra-velocity instead. The naming of the properties should be made consistent between the implementation and the documentation. * In the Changes document it is stated that "[the] behavior is customizable through [...] properties of ArticulationEvent". I'm wondering whether this is supposed to mean that the properties can be controlled from within LilyPond input using \override and \revert, \set, or some other syntax - if so, an example about this syntax would be very useful. The only way that I've found to work to customize the behavior is to use the make-articulation function (as in ly/script-init.ly), which will change the behavior of all notes with a given articulation. However, adjusting, for example, the "extra velocity" of just single articulated notes could be interesting, for example, to add variety to the MIDI output. (This can of course be simulated by defining new articulations and using them, but I'm wondering whether this could be achieved by temporarily adjusting the properties of the default articulations.) -- Heikki Tauriainen _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
