David: That was exactly what I was hoping for - absolutely! Thank you so much, it totally makes sense now. More and more I keep seeing just how powerful LilyPond can be - it's scary sometimes!
(but always in a good way lol) Thanks again, Ben David Nalesnik-2 wrote > Hi Ben, > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:46 PM, SoundsFromSound > < > soundsfromsound@ > > wrote: >> I'm trying to wrap my head around the frameEngraver4 and can't quite >> grasp >> the syntax and how to customize the code to suit my needs. >> >> Is there a guide or cheat-sheet that explains how to use frameEngraver to >> it's fullest potential? I feel like it's a bit over my head and I feel >> lost >> when trying to make sense of it. >> >> Thanks for any feedback. >> > > Well, there's no guide or cheat-sheet, but I can give you a brief run > through--which amounts to what you see in the example at the bottom. > Basically, you include the engraver as I do in the \layout block.. > Then, you surround the notes in your frame with \frameStart and > \frameEnd. You control the length of the line-with-arrow by > overriding the property 'extender-length. This line unfortunately > won't cross a bar line unless you override the barline's X-extent to > '(+inf.0 . -inf.0) -- i.e., so it has no X-extent at all. (This is > one of the issues I'll have to look into.) > > There's not much customization that's possible at the moment. It > would be relatively easy to add a property to control the height of > the extender-line relative to the box (right now it's always > centered), and I'll see about doing that. I'll need to add a > provision for controlling the width of the box. The implementation > here is pretty rudimentary--just designed to get something working. > > As I say, I'll need to look at some scores to see the kinds of > customizations which are desirable. If you have any ideas, please let > me know. > > Most of what's in this file (anything above the example) might be > tucked away into a file which you include to cut down on the mess. > > Hope this is helpful-- > David > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ----- composer | sound designer -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Aleatoric-modern-notation-tp18113p136369.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
