Re: Mysterious behavior in music function

2019-08-04 Thread Marc Evanstein
Thanks so much for this explanation, and for the working version that does exactly what I wanted! It's very much appreciated. Marc Marc Evanstein www.marcevanstein.com Sun Aug 04 16:07:28 PDT 2019 Thomas Morley : > Am So., 4. Aug. 2019 um 22:49 Uhr schrieb Marc Evanstein > : >

Mysterious behavior in music function

2019-08-04 Thread Marc Evanstein
Hi all, I'm trying to define a music function that adds a gliss after a note down to a second parenthesized grace note. I've tried the following, but the gliss doesn't show up: \version "2.19.83" \language "english" bendDown = #(define-music-function    (parser location first

Re: Orchestra Tempo Staff?

2019-04-26 Thread Marc Evanstein
Hi Kieren, Many thanks to both you and Rick for your replies. I looked up MarkLine, and it was exactly what I was looking for. The one issue I ran into is that I did have to add "\consists Text_spanner_engraver" to get rit and accel spanners to show up, and now that they show up, they are not at

Orchestra Tempo Staff?

2019-04-24 Thread Marc Evanstein (formerly Evans)
ls like maybe I'm missing something obvious. Thanks, Marc -- Marc Evanstein (formerly Evans) PhD Candidate in Music Composition at UCSB Stanford BA '10, Music; MA '11, Music, Science and Technology www.marcevansmusic.com <>___ lilypond

Re: variables for specific kinds of markup?

2018-09-17 Thread Marc Evanstein
r in the near future, and many thanks for all the help! September 17, 2018 8:01 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > "Marc Evanstein (formerly Evans)" writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to create a variable to handle a certain type of markup >

variables for specific kinds of markup?

2018-09-17 Thread Marc Evanstein (formerly Evans)
Hi all, I'm trying to create a variable to handle a certain type of markup text. For instance, I'd like percussion strikings to be in small caps above the staff, and what I really want is to define some sort of macro that replaces all instances of "\striking { theText }" with "^\markup\smallC