Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Jim On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jim Long wrote: > > > (...) I do recall hitting a wall once when I discovered that Lily won't > > accept two consecutive 'mark' directives, like for a > > > > \mark default > > \mark \markup \musicglyph #"scripts.segno" > > > > when you want to have rehear

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread lilypond
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:39:20AM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I also often run into this situation, but it also applies to dynamic > marks etc. (e.g. a phrase is repeated eight times, and I need a mf at > the beginning and p at the fifth repetition). There probably are more > situations

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread lilypond
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:39:20AM +0100, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I also often run into this situation, but it also applies to dynamic > marks etc. (e.g. a phrase is repeated eight times, and I need a mf at > the beginning and p at the fifth repetition). There probably are more > situations

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread lilypond
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:31:31PM +, Peekay Ex wrote: > Jim, > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jim Long wrote: > > Thank you very much, James. > > No problem - don't forget to cc the list so others see the reply that > may contain more information for them to assist. I didn't forget. M

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread Peekay Ex
Jim, On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jim Long wrote: > Thank you very much, James. No problem - don't forget to cc the list so others see the reply that may contain more information for them to assist. > > I'll take an earnest look at your suggestion in the morning.  I > do recall hitting a w

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, > The workaround I sometimes use (if it is less work than changing the > variables) is to to use a separate voice that mainly consists of skips. Then > I can insert markups wherever I want (with s1^\markup ...). Don't forget that — thanks to David Kastrup's recent work — you can now use the

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I also often run into this situation, but it also applies to dynamic marks etc. (e.g. a phrase is repeated eight times, and I need a mf at the beginning and p at the fifth repetition). There probably are more situations where you have this problem. The workaround I sometimes use (if it

Re: Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-13 Thread Peekay Ex
Hello, On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:35 AM, wrote: > Failing that, if there were a way to attach markup to a bar line, > that (plus perhaps an 'extra-offset') would suffice in the majority > of situations I can think of. > > Is there such a way to attach markup to a high-level music > expression o

Attaching markup to high-level objects

2011-11-12 Thread lilypond
As I know the majority of folks here are aware, Lilypond's typesetting language lends itself to modularization of music, so that a recurring theme or motif can be defined once as a music identifier, and then inserted at several places in the layout by referencing that identifier, possibly with tran