Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 07:23:22AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Paul Scott writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: > >> Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a > >> caesura, I > >> tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) .

Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> That's rather awful code. \override/\revert are not really working > all too well for single canned commands like that. > > I'd rather use something like > > caesura = > \tweak #'text #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.caesura.straight") > \tweak #'Y-offset #0 \breathe > > { c'\caesura d' e'

Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-06 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Scott writes: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: >> Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a >> caesura, I >> tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've >> tried >> so far: >> >> caesura = { >> \override B

Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:18:11PM -0800, Matthew wrote: > On 02/05/2014 09:36 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: > >> Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a > >> caesura, I > >> tried defining a command to shorten thing

Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew
On 02/05/2014 09:36 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: >> Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a >> caesura, I >> tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've >> tried >> so far: >> >> caesura

Re: Custom caesura command

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:17:53PM -0800, Matthew wrote: > Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a caesura, > I > tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've tried > so far: > > caesura = { > \override BreathingSign.text = \markup { \mus

Custom caesura command

2014-02-05 Thread Matthew
Not wanting to type a long \override command in every staff I want a caesura, I tried defining a command to shorten things for me :) . This is what I've tried so far: caesura = { \override BreathingSign.text = \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.caesura.straight" } \breathe \override BreathingS