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Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?


From: rasAK
Subject: Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:45:38 -0800 (PST)

Alexander,

Thanks so much.  I'll take a look at your suggestion in detail.

Randy



rasAK wrote:
> 
> In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both:
> (1) an integer representing the number of measures in the current MMR,
> centered above (default behavior)
> (2) a second text indicating which measures are included in the given MMR,
> in parentheses and centered BELOW the MMR.
> 
> (1) happens automatically.  (2) is what I don't know how to do.  I'm
> thinking I would have to figure out how to write a Scheme function to do
> this, but as I have never written one before, I wanted to know whether
> there was an existing, non-Scheme solution.
> 
> As an example, given the following input:
> 
> %EXAMPLE 1a
> \time 4/4
> \key c \major
> c4 d e f
> R1*10
> c d e f
> 
> ...output will generate "10" above the MMR.  I would like "( 2 - 11 )"
> generated automatically and centered below it.
> 
> If the input were changed to:
> 
> %EXAMPLE 1b
> \time 4/4
> \key c \major
> c4 d e f
> c d e f
> c d e f
> R1*10
> c d e f
> 
> ...then the output should remain "10" above but change to "( 4 - 13 )"
> below the MMR.
> 
> As an additional wrinkle, if Rehearsal Letter "A" happened to fall at mm.
> 9, Example 1b should output 2 MMRs ( |--4--| and |--6--|) with "( 4 - 7 )"
> and "( 8 - 13 )" below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Randy
> 

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