Re: multi-column markup function/macro?

2014-01-20 Thread Alex Loomis
I'm still getting a lot of warnings, but it works beautifully! The word silence is in roman, but commenting out the line \override-lines #'(font-name . "Century Schoolbook L") makes it italic. I assume this is because you need to specify an italic typeface? On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:44 AM, J

Re: how close are we to having an "addAt" or "insertAt" feature?

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Loomis
How much sense would it make for there to be a separate \mark-style command that functioned identically but didn't mess with the counter? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Werner, > > > I suggest that such a command allows for a third,

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-21 Thread Alex Loomis
Two separate ones. As an orchestral performer those breaks are often used to signify the beginnings of sections to make counting easier, so if I'm resting and there are 8 bars of one theme followed by 8 of another, I find it much easier to keep my place when it's 8 and 8 instead of 16. Alex On S

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-21 Thread Alex Loomis
I don't see what's wrong with the output, that's exactly what I would expect it to be. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello all, > > Consider this snippet: > > \version "2.17.97" > > theMusic = { > \compressFullBarRests > R1*2 >

Re: [Feature Request] \compressFullBarRests improvement(s)

2013-12-21 Thread Alex Loomis
I agree that in that case it should be fully compressed, but not in the first example. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > > Two separate ones. As an orchestral performer those breaks are often > used to signify the beginnings