Re: Questions about articulation settings for the GDP

[Graham Percival]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > Eyolf Østrem wrote:
> >
> > > 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, the answer is different for different articulations. Some, 
> like  \fermata
> are always placed above the stave, whereas others like \accent are placed
> opposite to the stem. All this is specified in the file scm/script.scm.

Eyolf, could you include info about this in your next update of Expressive?

Referring to @{file{scm/script.scm} is fine; you can grep for "@file" to 
see other examples of this in the docs.


> > > \set crescendoText = \markup { \italic "cresc. poco" }
> > > \set crescendoSpanner = #'line
> > > a'2\< a a a a a a a\!\mf

Added as
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=505

Cheers,
- Graham