Re: Questions about articulation settings for the GDP

[Graham Percival]

Eyolf Østrem wrote:
> I'm working on the articulations for the GDP, and I've ran into some
> things that I would need assistance on:

In the absence of other replies, here's my best guesses.

> 1. Automatic placement. I think there should  be a brief note about
> what the rules are for how they are placed by default. Opposite of the
> stem? How about polyphony? According to the voice number?

I think the best answer is to experiment -- make up examples with and 
without polyphony (or perhaps simply altering \voiceOne to \voiceTwo or 
no command at all), give it a bunch of articulations, and see what happens.

...
Actually, this could be a candidate for LM 3 Fundamental concepts, since 
it affects -\markup{} as well.

...
It's still worth investigating this and writing up some text.  The 
text+examples might end up in LM instead of notation reference, but for 
now add it to Expressive marks.


> 2. I've tried to work with different values for crescendoSpanner, but
> there is no difference between line and dashed-line -- they both
> produce a dashed line. Here's the example from the manual (ran with v.
> 2.11.34):
>
> \set crescendoText = \markup { \italic "cresc. poco" }
> \set crescendoSpanner = #'line
> a'2\< a a a a a a a\!\mf

My first thought was that this could be an old format, but running it 
through convert-ly (guessing at version 2.10.0) didn't improve it.

Mats?  I haven't looked at this in detail; is this a bug or changed syntax?

> 3. similar problem with \override Hairpin #'after-line-breaking = ##t
> It should, as I've understood it, let the hairpin continue to the
> first note on the following line, but that doesn't happen here.

Create a minimal example and file a bug report?  We're certain to find 
bugs while we work on this.  :(

Cheers,
- Graham