Hi David (et al.), > Ideally, for this sort of thing there should be a special grob. This grob > could also encompass the very common piano notation that shows that a note > ought to be taken by the other hand (the bracket with one wing)
+1 Since it would almost certainly require (or at least benefit from) staff-spanning capabilities (e.g., across the gap in a PianoStaff), couldn’t this nicely combine into a grob which *encompasses* (e.g., boxes, parenthesizes, brackets, braces, etc.) a set of notes/grobs? Then this new grob could serve a number of similar — and extremely useful — purposes. > Note that what I've done here is not orthodox--it's "messing with internals" > as LilyPond currently has no user interface for building new grobs. (You > will get errors talking about redefinition of properties if you compile > multiple files at once using this engraver.) What (roughly speaking) would it take technically to create such a user interface? If I remember correctly, the whole Scheme engraver thing was a bit of a cobbled solution (to overcome the difficulty of creating engravers in C++), and they have clearly been a boon to the platform/application. Can something similar be done for grob creation? Thanks, Kieren. _______________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info> email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
