Re: Adding durations (for \after)

2022-11-10 Thread David Kastrup
"Joel C. Salomon" writes: > On 11/10/22 18:48, Jean Abou Samra wrote: >> Le 11/11/2022 à 00:40, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : >>> But I don't know what syntax to pick for that, or if it's essential >>> to have one or if "+" alone is already useful enough on its own. >>> 1`16 is the best I could find,

Re: Adding durations (for \after)

2022-11-10 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 11/10/22 18:48, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le 11/11/2022 à 00:40, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : But I don't know what syntax to pick for that, or if it's essential to have one or if "+" alone is already useful enough on its own. 1`16 is the best I could find, but it's not wonderfully mnemonic. I thin

Re: Adding durations (for \after)

2022-11-10 Thread David Kastrup
Lukas-Fabian Moser writes: > Well, duration-or-music? already exists and it's used by \skip. > > Ah, my bad, I didn't think of looking whether it might already > exist. I'm surprised that such an either-/or type predicate doesn't > wreak havoc with the parser. The parser doesn't have a hardwire

Re: Adding durations (for \after)

2022-11-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 11/11/2022 à 00:40, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : But I don't know what syntax to pick for that, or if it's essential to have one or if "+" alone is already useful enough on its own. 1`16 is the best I could find, but it's not wonderfully mnemonic. I think the reason why I can feel like it's a dif

Re: Adding durations (for \after)

2022-11-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 11/11/2022 à 00:14, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : Well, duration-or-music? already exists and it's used by \skip. Ah, my bad, I didn't think of looking whether it might already exist. I'm surprised that such an either-/or type predicate doesn't wreak havoc with the parser. It is somethin

Re: Adding durations (for \after)

2022-11-10 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Well, duration-or-music? already exists and it's used by \skip. Ah, my bad, I didn't think of looking whether it might already exist. I'm surprised that such an either-/or type predicate doesn't wreak havoc with the parser. However, this makes for the slight oddity that \skip 4 ... does not s

Re: Semantics of \section

2022-11-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 10/11/2022 à 16:49, Joel C. Salomon a écrit : Obviously, all three options below produce identical output. (And also, I know that `\sectionLabel` does not need to be attached to a `\section`.) But is there a notion of which generally best represents the way music is divided, clearer to the n

Re: Flexible lyric alignment

2022-11-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 3:05 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > To tackle this, the first step would be sitting down with paper, > formulating what new kind of problem we want, and figuring out > an algorithm to solve it, maybe a variant of the existing algorithm > to solve springs&rods problems (in li

Semantics of \section

2022-11-10 Thread Joel C. Salomon
Obviously, all three options below produce identical output. (And also, I know that `\sectionLabel` does not need to be attached to a `\section`.) But is there a notion of which generally best represents the way music is divided, clearer to the next reader of my code than the other choices? —Joe

Re: MetronomeMark in line with sectionLabel

2022-11-10 Thread Edizioni Migliori
Thanks; that is what I ended up doing. Not sure why I missed your email earlier. -Ahanu On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 19:14 Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 29/10/2022 à 22:46, Edizioni Migliori a écrit : > > Is it possible to make a MetronomeMark (tempo indication) appear > > immediately to the right of a

Re: ghostscript 9.56.1 in lilypond 2.23.14 no longer finds font Helvetica-Bold, but gs in 2.22.1 did

2022-11-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi, For your information, I have submitted a merge request to mention this change in LilyPond's Changes document (https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1719). Also, the red herring in init.ly is now tracked in https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6459 Best, Jean

Re: Tie with slash (caesura) on the curve

2022-11-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Jean, Le jeu. 10 nov. 2022 à 11:23, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : ... > This is nice! Just a thought: why use after-line-breaking > here? ... Bad habit? Respond without thinking long enough? Too proud it'd worked? Missing knowledge? All?... Yeah, probably all... > This is the sort of thing th

Re: Tie with slash (caesura) on the curve

2022-11-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 10/11/2022 à 04:31, Pierre Perol-Schneider a écrit : How about: \version "2.22.0" oldTie = \once \override Tie.after-line-breaking =      #(lambda (grob)         (let*          ((stencil (ly:tie::print grob))           (dir (ly:grob-property grob 'direction))           (markup-stencil