Re: Jazz articulations in version 2.2

[chip]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:00:19 +0200
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Developers/hackers, here's something to improve on. The best
> alternative is to add support for these jazz articulations
> in the font and in some appropriate engraver.
> A quicker fix (?) might be to translate my hacky solution into
> a Scheme function that can be applied on the note.
> 
> I used a trick, namely to fool Lilypond into drawing the postscript
> code as a replacement for an ordinary dot of a dotted note.
> Of course, it doesn't work of you want a fall or raise on a note
> that's dotted from the beginning.
> 
> Anyway, this is hopefully better than nothing and it avoids the
> extra-offset settings that most others have used when trying to
> place some arbitrary object close to a note. Also, it should
> reserve the necessary horizontal space. It should be possible to
> override horizontally placed fingering instructions instead of
> dots to get a solution that works with dotted notes as well.
> 
> I don't know what the bend is supposed to look like, but it's
> probably easy to do a similar macro for that as well.

Would it be possible, and of any help, if I sent you a scanned image of
a piece of music that has these articulations?
--
chip

> \version "2.2.0"
> 
> 
> makefall = {
>    \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
>    \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-.5 . 2)
>    \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth -0.2 
> -0.2 moveto 0.5 -0.2 1.2 -1 1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke}"
> }
> 
> makeraise = {
>    \once \override Staff.DotColumn #'direction = #left
>   \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
>    \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-2 . 0.5)
> %  \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(-.5 . 0)
>    \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth 0.2 
> -0.2 moveto 0 -1 -0.7 -1.8 -1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke}"
> }
> 
> makefallz = {
>    \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
>    \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-.5 . 2)
>    \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.1 setlinewidth -0.4 
> -0.2 moveto 1 1 5 { 0.7 0.1
> rlineto -0.5 -0.5 rlineto } for stroke}"
> }
> 
> makeraisez = {
>    \once \override Staff.DotColumn #'direction = #left
>    \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
>    \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-2 . 0.5)
> %  \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(-.5 . 0)
>    \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.1 setlinewidth 0.4 
> -0.2 moveto 1 1 5 { -0.7 0.1 rlineto 0.5 -0.5 rlineto } for stroke}"
> }
> 
> 
> \score {
>    \notes \relative c'' {
>      a4 \makeraise a4.*2/3 \makefall a4.*2/3 a4
>      a4 \makeraisez a4.*2/3 \makefallz a4.*2/3 a4
>    }
>    \paper { raggedright = ##t}
> }
> 
> 
>     /Mats
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:40:23 +0200
> > Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>The scriptHorizontal property has been removed in version 2.2, i.e.
> >>there is no support for typesetting an arbitrary script to the
> >>left or right of a note head. Instead, there is now special support
> >>for doing this for fingerings.
> >>
> >>    /Mats
> > 
> > 
> > Okay, that's fine. But how do I work around this? There's got to be
> > a way to create the articulations.
> > 
> > 
> >>address@hidden wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:25:32 +0200
> >>>Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>The current syntax for changing object properties is described at
> >>>>http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/
> >La>>
> >>>yout-tunings-within-contexts.html#Layout%20tunings%20within%20cont
> >ex>>ts>
> >>>
> >>>>However, the syntax examples you show have never been correct and
> >>>>even though it has been modified by convert-ly, the original at
> >>>>the end of this email cannot possibly have worked in any LilyPond
> >>>>version I can think of. If you go back to 
> >>>>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002-10/msg00130.
> >ht>>
> >>>ml>and run convert-ly on that code, you should get the correct
> >>>syntax.>
> >>>
> >>>>  /Mats
> > 
> > 
> > You refer to a list message and mention it will work after running
> > convert-ly, but it doesn't, and in todays reply say it can't be
> > done. I realize this application is written for the person scoring
> > classical music, but there are a lot of people using it for more
> > modern music as well. There's got to be a way to add modern
> > articulations with writing entire sections of new code in every
> > piece we transcribe/write. That just doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > How hard could it be to just add the articulations to the feta font?
> > Seems that would be most logical thing to do.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Chip
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>>Once again, thanks. I have almost a working test document. The
> >>>desired articulations appear on the printed page but not in the
> >>>correct positions. I can probably fix that by tweaking the numbers,
> >>>I just have to find the doc that explains what each number means.
> >>>Anyway, here is the results of running convert-ly and then running
> >>>the interpreter. There are several property-type errors...
> >>>thanks
> >>>Chip
> >>>
> >>>convert-ly -e test.ly
> >>>convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2
> >>>Processing `test.ly' ... Applying conversions: 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3,
> >>>2.1.4, 2.1.7, 2.1.10, 2.1.11, 2.1.12, 2.1.13, 2.1.14, 2.1.15,
> >>>2.1.16, 2.1.17, 2.1.18, 2.1.19, 2.1.20, 2.1.21, 2.1.22, 2.1.23,
> >>>2.1.24, 2.1.25, 2.1.26, 2.1.27, 2.1.28, 2.1.29, 2.1.30, 2.1.31,
> >>>2.1.33, 2.1.34, 2.1.36, 2.2.0, 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Process convert-ly exited with code 0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>lilypond test.ly
> >>>
> >>>lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2
> >>>Running lilypond-bin...
> >>>Now processing `test.ly'
> >>>Parsing...
> >>>Interpreting music... warning: Can't find property type-check for
> >>>`scriptHorizontal' (translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing
> >>>error? warning: Doing assignment anyway.
> >>>warning: Can't find property type-check for `scriptHorizontal'
> >>>(translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing error? warning:
> >>>Doing assignment anyway. warning: Can't find property type-check
> >for>>`scriptHorizontal' (translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a
> >typing>>error? warning: Doing assignment anyway.
> >>>warning: Can't find property type-check for `scriptHorizontal'
> >>>(translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing error? warning:
> >>>Doing assignment anyway.[3]
> >>>Preprocessing graphical objects... 
> >>>Calculating line breaks... 
> >>>
> >>>paper output to `test.tex'...
> >>>
> >>>writing header field `instrument' to `test.instrument'...
> >>>writing header field `title' to `test.title'...
> >>>writing header field `arranger' to `test.arranger'...
> >>>writing header field `poet' to `test.poet'...
> >>>writing header field `opus' to `test.opus'...
> >>>
> >>>Analyzing test.tex...
> >>>Running ...
> >>>Running dvips...
> >>>Running ps2pdf...
> >>>DVI output to `test.dvi'...
> >>>PDF output to `test.pdf'...
> >>>PS output to `test.ps'...
> >>>Process lilypond exited with code 0
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>=============================================
> >>    Mats Bengtsson
> >>    Signal Processing
> >>    Signals, Sensors and Systems
> >>    Royal Institute of Technology
> >>    SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
> >>    Sweden
> >>    Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
> >>         Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
> >>    Email: address@hidden
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> >>=============================================
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> -- 
> =============================================
>       Mats Bengtsson
>       Signal Processing
>       Signals, Sensors and Systems
>       Royal Institute of Technology
>       SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
>       Sweden
>       Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
>          Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
>       Email: address@hidden
>       WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe
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