Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-17 Thread dak
On 2012/12/17 06:13:22, Keith wrote: On 2012/12/16 08:09:38, dak wrote: That works fine. The input below will show a single staff, except for the one line containing the voice-crossing section, regardless of where the line-breaks fall. (We can do this with current LilyPond using two Staff

Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-16 Thread k-ohara5a5a
On 2012/12/16 08:09:38, dak wrote: Well, the idea was to use this in pairs of contexts with otherwise identical harakiri conditions, and give only one of them the dead-is-alive flag. So one context pops up only when the other doesn't. I had the idea of using this with the Keep_alive_together

Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-16 Thread dak
k-ohara5...@oco.net writes: On 2012/12/15 21:32:41, dak wrote: The "dead-is-alive"-thing had the advantage that even though I did not understand what I am working with, it was easy to make it behave as advertised. "This reverses the decisions that the Hara_kiri_engraver makes." This engra

Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-15 Thread k-ohara5a5a
On 2012/12/15 21:32:41, dak wrote: The "dead-is-alive"-thing had the advantage that even though I did not understand what I am working with, it was easy to make it behave as advertised. "This reverses the decisions that the Hara_kiri_engraver makes." This engraver removes empty staves, so reve

Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-15 Thread dak
On 2012/12/15 18:22:46, Keith wrote: [...] A re-arrangement in logic could give a useful option "If a Staff with the 'alive_together_alternative' flag set has anything interesting to say on this line, but /none/ of his (un-flagged) friends in his keep-alive-together group do, then print him

Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-15 Thread k-ohara5a5a
On 2012/12/15 11:40:17, dak wrote: I was sort of hoping that Keith would be able to make use of this While the negative logic makes it not negligibly difficult to avoid errors in understanding, I see no good way to use this. If the usual method is: "If this Staff has anything interesting to s

Re: Add dead-is-alive boolean property to Hara_kiri_group_spanner (issue 6948058)

2012-12-15 Thread dak
Reviewers: lemzwerg, Message: On 2012/12/15 10:48:12, lemzwerg wrote: LGTM. Do we have a regtest (or rather, an example) which demonstrates how to use it? I don't actually have one. Since this was inspired by a discussion on the mailing list, I was sort of hoping that Keith would be able t