On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:57:08 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Graham Percival wrote Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:29 PM > > >I have an announcement to make: I'm an idiot. > > No need to announce it ;) But if you are so are most > of us. Ack! You figured out my secret reason! I am undone! :) Reinhold: hey, I've never called a translator an idiot. Other than Valentin, that is -- he's a special case. :) > > This version of the files now do the following: > > - commands are placed after the note they belong to -- ie > > \pdolce behaves just like \p. Except for the "dolce" part. :) > > - commands use the correct amount of horizontal space. > > Clever! How can you think you're an idiot? (But then, > you didn't really, did you?) Well, check out this thought process: 1) yay, I can use \displayMusic to figure out how to translate \once \override DynamicText #'X-offset = #-1 c4\mpdolce into scheme! 2) oh, that doesn't work when I shove the scheme into \mpdolce. 3) Of course; you can't use \override inside a chord, which is essentially what c4 (scheme-function) \mpdolce turns into. 4) hmph. I can choose to either dump the \mpdolce before the note, or lose the horizontal placement. (that was a week ago) ... during the past week: this is so stupid. I mean, I have the correct \override command in scheme, I have the mpdolce in scheme. Why can't lilypond just apply that override to the next item? I mean, they're in the same scheme function! I wonder if I can break the c4 music event so I can shove the \override in front of it, re-instante the c4, and add the \mpdolce. Maybe somebody could add a "take apart the previous music function" to lilypond before 2.12... 5) oh wait, this is *exactly* why \tweak was invented years ago. And... wow, a \tweak command is even simpler than an \override command in scheme. I had all the pieces together, but I was still flailing around trying about really exotic solutions (taking a music event apart?!). > The only problem is that the dynamics of the new > commands are not reflected in the MIDI output. Hmm... I can't get concerned about that. I guess that somebody writing piano music might care, but since I write for strings and strings are so hard to synthesize, I never use MIDI for anything other than note-checking. If somebody can come up with an elegant solution for this, I wouldn't mind merging it -- but as you say, it'll probably require a much more complicated function and/or top-level score override. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
