Hi there, is there a way to remove certain types of events from an existing music expression? To be specific, I want to strip vocal-specific things (mostly breath marks) from the voices in a 4-part a cappella piece and condense (partcombine) everything into a piano grand staff for the rehearsal pianist.
My low-tech way to handle these cases has been to copy-and-paste the voices' finished variable definitions into new names, remove the piano-irrelevant material and then \partcombine the modified copies. This is obviously a little awkward in cases where you suddenly find out that the voices weren't actually quite finished, because any further corrections have to be made in two places to keep the two copies in sync. But applying a systematic search-and-replace to a copy of some data sounds like just the sort of job that I should be leaving to a computer. Does Lilypond provide something of that nature, or should I start learning scheme? (Another option I'm aware of is to add rather than subtract -- i.e. to have the common material in one definition and the once-only stuff in another which is then added as "simultaneous music" where it belongs in the layout. I've tried that, but found it counterintuitive to both write and read, and no gain over the modified-copy approach in terms of the "examine output, correct silly mistakes in the input" feedback cycle.) -- GMX DSL-Flatrate 1 Jahr kostenlos* + WLAN-Router ab 0,- Euro* Bis 31.12.2005 einsteigen! Infos unter: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
