Hi Kieren,
That's just fantastic - thank you so very much! Even though I've used
Lilypond a fair bit, my abilities at its more advanced capabilities (such
as writing functions) are very poor indeed. Yet even I find that there are
occasional things which need some tweaking to get right.
For me it's mainly renaissance and baroque music arranged for various
combinations of recorders and viols, being mindful of the capabilities and
limitations of each instrument. And I like to use notation from the time as
closely as I can.
Thanks again,
Alasdair
On Mon, 5 Aug 2024, 11:08 pm Kieren MacMillan, <kie...@kierenmacmillan.info>
wrote:
> Hi Alasdair,
>
> > It looks like the sort of thing that would be best incorporated in a
> function, called something like, say "bracketise", which can then be easily
> called in the score as " \bracketise b' ". I'll go back through my scores
> to see if I can re-teach myself how to write, and use, a function.
>
> Not trying to keep you from learning how to fish, but… ;)
>
> Here’s one example that I believe works as you want:
>
> %%% SNIPPET BEGINS
> \version "2.25.11"
>
> #(define-public (bracket-stencils grob)
> (let ((lp (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:fontsize 8 #:vcenter
> #:center-align #:bold "[")))
> (rp (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:fontsize 8 #:vcenter
> #:center-align #:bold "]"))))
> (list lp rp)))
>
> bracketize =
> #(define-music-function (bMusic) (ly:music?)
> #{
> \new CueVoice {
> \shiftOff \stemUp
> \tweak Parentheses.stencils #bracket-stencils
> \parenthesize $bMusic
> }
> #})
>
> \new Staff <<
> b, \bracketize b'
> >>
> %%% SNIPPET ENDS
>
> Hope that helps!
> Kieren.
>
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