2016-10-11 6:26 GMT+02:00 Mark Mathias <d8val...@gmail.com>: > LilyPond Friends, > > The manuals explain how to hide tuplet numbers, but nowhere could I find an > explanation of how to turn them back on. After many experiments, I finally > found an easy way to control turning on tuplet numbers after turning them > off. The secret was to enclose within curly brackets those tuplets whose > number needed to be hidden. Should this be shared somewhere? > > \version "2.19.16" > \relative c' { > \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } c4 > \once \hide TupletNumber { \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } } c4 > \tuplet 3/2 { c8 c c } c4 > } > > Thanks, > Mark > > Hi Mark,
others commented on it already. Let me share some general advice. I suspect you were a little confused by the \hide TupletNumber command and how to deal with it to fit your needs. \hide and a lot of other commands are shortcuts, or you could even say syntactic sugar. Sometimes it will get you more steps forward, when you make yourself clear what they actually represent. - Sometimes the docs help. Though, in the case of \hide the NR _explains_ what it is/does but the underlying code is not quoted (would be beyond the purpose of the NR). - You could look through the source-files. Using the search-function of my editor I got 13 hits for `hide' in .ly-files. Actually not that much for such a generic search-term and the wanted one is among them. - Or most simple, use \displayLilyMusic { \displayLilyMusic \hide TupletNumber \tuplet 3/2 { c'8 c' c' } } returns: \override TupletNumber.transparent = ##t Now you know it's a common override, which could be used with other commands like \once, \temporary etc. And/or \revert later. Letting things be displayed with the various displaying-procedures helps a lot. I do it all the time. HTH, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user