Grouping notes

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I am writing a paper on musical analysis. In there I need score-examples
> where the notes are grouped together. Normally this is done via a horizontal
> bracket underneath the score. As the exmples are musically quit simple I 
> started
> by using slurs. But I ran into two problems:
> It seems that I cannot use slurs to bind notes and rests. And second (which is
> more severe) I need a grouping-hierachy. So I need to be able to do more than
> one level of grouping...

>    c c r    c c r     c c r   c c r           <--- notes
>   |------| |------|  |-----| |-----|          <--- grouping level 1
>  |-----------------||---------------|         <--- grouping level 2
> |------------------------------------|          <--- grouping level 3
> 

lilypond 1.7.2 CVS,


    \notes
    {
        
        c4-\groupOpen-\groupOpen-\groupOpen
        c4-\groupClose
        c4-\groupOpen
        c4-\groupClose-\groupClose
        c4-\groupOpen
        c4-\groupClose-\groupClose
    }


(I thought it would be easy, and indeed, it was, but it still took me
3 quarters of an hour to get it working.)

Anyway, it's a tad late, but I hope you appreciate it.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen