R. Mattes wrote: > >> \version "2.15" > > Most likely: the language needs to be put in quotes: > > \language "myLanguage" > no, with or without quotes works with all languages!
> Better to put the langauge definition into a separate .ly-file and include > it. > Production code should also check whether the language is already defined, > otherwise > language-pitch-names will grow. > Something like this (save it in a file called myLanguage.ly): > > #(let ((new-lang > `(myLanguage . ((ceses . ,(ly:make-pitch -1 0 DOUBLE-FLAT)))))) > > (if (not (assoc 'myLanguage language-pitch-names)) > (set! language-pitch-names (cons new-lang language-pitch-names)))) > > \language "myLanguage" > > If you put this file somewhere where lilypond searches for includes and > add > \inlcude "myLanguage.ly" to your file. > now this works - thanks! maybe others are interested in what you can do with this: as i mentioned in a previous post with the snippet http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=768 you can easily add fingerings to a voice. these consist of a string which is associated with the notes so that the first element of the string is related to the first note, the 2nd element to the 2nd note and so forth. to omit a fingering for one note you simply (have to) write a letter iso a digit. now you can imagine such a string for even a little piece would become immense and nearly not manageable. therefor Gilles Thibault, the author of this snippet, has arranged that you can structure this string, putting it on several lines and adding special characters which will not be counted in associating the strings' elements to the notes. among these special characters are the wellknown Lilypond characters for chords <> the comma, the barcheck |, the dot... a special case is the apostrophe which is used to enter whole strings to be associated with one note. my approach now was to make a copy of the music with \displayLilyMusic - if you consequently add barchecks after each measure you get a nicely structured voice with each measure starting on a new line. using my "new" language, e.g., for a d major scale i get d' e' f♯' g' a' h' c♯'' d'' in which i just have to replace the note name - i can leave the sharp or flat sign. (the apostrophs must be removed or replaced - i recommend to use ^ for that purpose). an example: the fingering string for just the 1st measure of Sor's étude op. 6 no. 9 for guitar looks so: 341234002134xxxx or 341234002134afge with my fingering language it is: < 3^ 4^^ > < 1^ 2♯^^ > < 3^ 4^^ > < 0^ 0^^ > < 2^ 1^^ > < 3^ 4^^ > < a^ f^^ > < g^ e^^ > or - omitting the octave information: < 3 4 > < 1 2♯ > < 3 4 > < 0 0 > < 2 1 > < 3 4 > < a f > < g e > the code for these examples and the language definition (to view the special characters you need a special font to display them; i've been using DejaVu Sans Mono) : http://old.nabble.com/file/p31878853/test2.ly test2.ly http://old.nabble.com/file/p31878853/_language%2Bdefs.ly _language+defs.ly hope this is useful for others, too, and many thanks, Ralf, for your (tele-)patience+support! Eluze -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/trying-to-add-a-new-%5Clanguage-tp31855111p31878853.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
