Re: \cresc applies to the next note!

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:32:00PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 2009/3/1 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > Yes.  I think that somebody (a Frog?) would need to make \cresc a
> > built-in command rather than simply being defined in
> > ly/spanner-init.ly (or maybe dynamics-init.ly ?)
> 
> What I'd really like to see implemented is an equivalent of
> define-music-function, but that would instead be called
> define-music-tweak, that could take any argument (strings, numbers,
> whatever) /except/ music expressions, and that would be entered
> immediately /after/ the affected note (like an articulation), whereas
> music-functions have to be entered /before/ the note they affect
> (that's actually a ly:music? argument).
> 
> And FWIW, I doubt any Frog could implement such a new infrastructure.
> I certainely can not.

Oh, ye of little faith.  :)

I'm certain that a Frog *could* do it.  Sure, it might take a few
months, but it'd be a great learning process about the lilypond
internals.  If my summer plans go as I hope, then I might do it
myself.

Just make sure you add it to the tracker so that we don't lose it.

Cheers,
- Graham