Thank you, Neil. That is a very good point and I'm now switching to standard \markup usage. An thanks to everyone who chimed in here. I have been trying to develop a way to notate for my instrument, the Chapman Stick, for a long time. I really made a big leap today.
-Eric On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Neil Puttock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > 2008/7/7 Eric Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have one more piece of the puzzle to solve. How do you translate >> this markup command into scheme? >> >> \draw-line #'(4 . 4) > > #:draw-line '(4 . 4) or #:draw-line (cons 4 4) > >> Some of the markup commands call for pairs of numbers. I can't find >> any docs for how the pairs are coded in scheme. > > '(4 . 4) is a Scheme pair; the hash sign tells LilyPond's parser that > there's some Scheme code coming up. > > There's a short tutorial here, > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Scheme-tutorial#Scheme-tutorial, > which explains how Scheme data types are used in LilyPond. > > BTW, it's an unnecessary complication to use Scheme markup syntax for > simple 'text overrides; you'll find it much easier if you stick to > LilyPond's standard \markup usage. > > For example: > > headXinD = { > \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print > \once \override NoteHead #'text = \markup { > \combine > \halign #-0.7 \draw-circle #0.85 #0.2 ##f > \musicglyph #"noteheads.s2cross" > } > } > > Regards, > Neil > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
