Hi everyone, First of all, I'd like to thank all of you for your hard work -- LilyPond is getting better and better!
So, I'm getting tired of abusing the TextScript, RehearsalMark, and TextSpanner grobs to do things like "rit." and "D.C.", because things usually get really messy with tweaks and overrides, and conflicts between simultaneous marks, spanners, etc. Thanks to Harm's suggestion, I recently tinkered with this nice snippet for getting simultaneous RehearsalMarks... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-08/msg00157.html ...but even that solution has its limitations, and I'm struck thinking there must be an easier way for the user. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but here's what I'd like to see (I haven't put much thought into these grob/command names, it's just the idea): TempoMark => \tempoMark (instead of \tempo?) keep this as is, for primary tempo indications like "Allegro", and metronome markings SubTempoMark => \subTempoMark for things like "accel.", "rit.", "a tempo", etc., default could be: left-aligned on the musical moment, medium-italic SubTempoSpanner => \startSubTempoSpanner, \stopSubTempoSpanner for things like "rit. - - -", etc. RehearsalMark => \rehearsalMark (instead of \mark?) keep it as is, for rehearsal letters or numbers that are usually centered over the barline. RoadmapMark => \roadmapMark for things like "D.C.", "to Verses", "play 4 times", etc. that are usually right-aligned at the end of a bar. some defaults could be: `((self-alignment-X . ,right) (break-visibility . ,begin-of-line-invisible) (font-shape . italic) (font-size . 0)) SectionMark => \sectionMark for things like "Verse", "Bridge", "Refrain", "Coda", etc. that are usually left-aligned at the beginning of a bar. some defaults could be: `((self-alignment-X . ,left) (break-visibility . ,end-of-line-invisible)) I think that having new grobs like these would make things easier and more semantic (which I like). And it would be nicer to be able to define generic styles in a \layout block instead of having to write custom music functions, or repeatedly doing things like "\markup \bold \italic" or whatever. What do you guys think? Thanks. - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
