Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-20 Thread David Kastrup
David Sumbler writes: > On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 19:58 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> > I find this very confusing. >> > >> > \tweak returns music, yet it requires a hyphen in front of it. [explanation] > This is very, very useful.  OK, I had to read it and think about it 3 > or 4 times before I

Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-20 Thread David Sumbler
On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 19:58 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > David Sumbler writes: > > > > > On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 00:27 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > > > > > On 18.11.2016 22:41, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I need to study this (and the previous answer) to see if I can > > >

Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-19 Thread David Kastrup
David Sumbler writes: > On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 00:27 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: >> On 18.11.2016 22:41, David Sumbler wrote: >> > >> > I need to study this (and the previous answer) to see if I can >> > fathom >> > out the logic of it all. >> \tweak is a music function (which means it returns m

Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-19 Thread David Sumbler
On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 00:27 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 18.11.2016 22:41, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > I need to study this (and the previous answer) to see if I can > > fathom > > out the logic of it all. > \tweak is a music function (which means it returns music) and it > also  > takes mus

Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-18 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 18.11.2016 22:41, David Sumbler wrote: I need to study this (and the previous answer) to see if I can fathom out the logic of it all. \tweak is a music function (which means it returns music) and it also takes music as its third argument. The dash turns a markup into a post-event, which is

Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 21:40 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-11-18 20:36 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler : > > > > I have a bar which contains 3 notes, e.g. > > > > fs4 ds as' | > > > > It comes after a passage which is pizzicato, but the 2nd and 3rd > > notes > > of this bar need to be arco.  However

Re: Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-18 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-11-18 20:36 GMT+01:00 David Sumbler : > I have a bar which contains 3 notes, e.g. > > fs4 ds as' | > > It comes after a passage which is pizzicato, but the 2nd and 3rd notes > of this bar need to be arco. However, a normal "arco" marking over the > d sharp does not make it sufficiently clear

Combining \markup and \override in a variable

2016-11-18 Thread David Sumbler
I have a bar which contains 3 notes, e.g. fs4 ds as' | It comes after a passage which is pizzicato, but the 2nd and 3rd notes of this bar need to be arco.  However, a normal "arco" marking over the d sharp does not make it sufficiently clear that that is what is intended: particularly because of