On 2010-12-30 22:44, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: > Annoyance: the expressive part needs skips of the durations > corresponding to the notes in between the expressive marks. Someday, I > hope that LilyPond will have the facility to mark temporal points in > various parts so that they can be aligned without counting out the beats > correctly in each one. This would be structurally analogous to the use > of TABs in a single line of typed material, but it would not be > associated with lines of music, rather with entire scores.
This idea of defining "anchors" or "targets" in the music is a long-standing [*], much-awaited request for enhancement. See <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=824>, and be sure to check out Gilles' workaround (comment #2). I never tested Gilles' code, though, and I'm not sure whether it will work in the upcoming 2.14. [*] I think this idea is much older than the report filed in the tracker. Unfortunately IIUC this amounts to a quite invasive change in the whole LilyPond structure of parsing and handling input, and is unlikely to appear in the not-so-near future. Especially since it does not increase overall functionality or output quality, and it's easy to overcome for freshly written LilyPond scores with reasonably clever variable definitions. Cheers, Alexander _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
