The key to what you want to achieve is called "music function"
Bric <b...@flight.us> schrieb:
>Hi, all
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>I was pleasantly astounded that lilypond allows for things like
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>boo = { \once { \override NoteHead.color = #red } }
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>and then "mark up" notes sporadically, with \boo cis' .... .... \boo d
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>But here's what I want (give me an inch, I'll want a lightyear!)
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>I want the ability to distribute the effect of "\boo" to a SET of
>notes.
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>Such as \boo { dis' e' fis' g' }
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>where all the four notes are affected by boo.
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>I tried using
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>boo = { \override NoteHead.color = #red }
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>and then \boo dis' e' fis' g \revert
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>but that, of course, is incorrect syntax.
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>So what gives? Such a wonderful thing as a "modular markup" and yet
>it's a hair away from being hyperglorious only because you cannot
>parametrize it, or make it distributive to a set.
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>By the way, can someone please tell me what the above is called, in
>lilypond jargon.
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>I also realize that in lilypond, the term "markup" is reserved for
>text,
>and I think that's unfortunate, because it's a broader concept, that
>would include the phenomenon I am refferring to here.
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>It would be amazingly cool if you could feed parameters into \boo
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>This would then be an awesome hybrid of markup+algorithmic syntax
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>(am I off my rocker!??)
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