Jazz articulations in version 2.2

[Mats Bengtsson]

Developers/hackers, here's something to improve on. The best
alternative is to add support for these jazz articulations
in the font and in some appropriate engraver.
A quicker fix (?) might be to translate my hacky solution into
a Scheme function that can be applied on the note.

I used a trick, namely to fool Lilypond into drawing the postscript
code as a replacement for an ordinary dot of a dotted note.
Of course, it doesn't work of you want a fall or raise on a note
that's dotted from the beginning.

Anyway, this is hopefully better than nothing and it avoids the
extra-offset settings that most others have used when trying to
place some arbitrary object close to a note. Also, it should
reserve the necessary horizontal space. It should be possible to
override horizontally placed fingering instructions instead of
dots to get a solution that works with dotted notes as well.

I don't know what the bend is supposed to look like, but it's
probably easy to do a similar macro for that as well.

\version "2.2.0"


makefall = {
  \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
  \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-.5 . 2)
  \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth -0.2 
-0.2 moveto 0.5 -0.2 1.2 -1 1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke}"
}

makeraise = {
  \once \override Staff.DotColumn #'direction = #left
 \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
  \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-2 . 0.5)
%  \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(-.5 . 0)
  \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.2 setlinewidth 0.2 
-0.2 moveto 0 -1 -0.7 -1.8 -1.2 -2 rcurveto stroke}"
}

makefallz = {
  \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
  \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-.5 . 2)
  \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.1 setlinewidth -0.4 
-0.2 moveto 1 1 5 { 0.7 0.1
rlineto -0.5 -0.5 rlineto } for stroke}"
}

makeraisez = {
  \once \override Staff.DotColumn #'direction = #left
  \once \override Dots #'print-function = #Text_item::print
  \once \override Dots #'X-extent = #'(-2 . 0.5)
%  \once \override Dots #'extra-offset = #'(-.5 . 0)
  \once \override Dots #'text = #"\\embeddedps{0.1 setlinewidth 0.4 
-0.2 moveto 1 1 5 { -0.7 0.1 rlineto 0.5 -0.5 rlineto } for stroke}"
}


\score {
  \notes \relative c'' {
    a4 \makeraise a4.*2/3 \makefall a4.*2/3 a4
    a4 \makeraisez a4.*2/3 \makefallz a4.*2/3 a4
  }
  \paper { raggedright = ##t}
}


   /Mats

address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:40:23 +0200
> Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > The scriptHorizontal property has been removed in version 2.2, i.e.
> > there is no support for typesetting an arbitrary script to the
> > left or right of a note head. Instead, there is now special support
> > for doing this for fingerings.
> >
> >    /Mats
>
>
> Okay, that's fine. But how do I work around this? There's got to be a
> way to create the articulations.
>
>
> > address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:25:32 +0200
> > > Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > The current syntax for changing object properties is described at
> > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/La
> > >
> > > yout-tunings-within-contexts.html#Layout%20tunings%20within%20contex
> > > ts>
> > >
> > > > However, the syntax examples you show have never been correct and
> > > > even though it has been modified by convert-ly, the original at
> > > > the end of this email cannot possibly have worked in any LilyPond
> > > > version I can think of. If you go back to 
> > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002-10/msg00130.ht
> > >
> > > ml>and run convert-ly on that code, you should get the correct
> > > syntax.>
> > >
> > > >  /Mats
>
>
> You refer to a list message and mention it will work after running
> convert-ly, but it doesn't, and in todays reply say it can't be done.
> I realize this application is written for the person scoring classical
> music, but there are a lot of people using it for more modern music as
> well. There's got to be a way to add modern articulations with writing
> entire sections of new code in every piece we transcribe/write. That
> just doesn't make sense.
>
> How hard could it be to just add the articulations to the feta font?
> Seems that would be most logical thing to do.
>
> Regards,
> Chip
>
>
>
> > > Once again, thanks. I have almost a working test document. The
> > > desired articulations appear on the printed page but not in the
> > > correct positions. I can probably fix that by tweaking the numbers,
> > > I just have to find the doc that explains what each number means.
> > > Anyway, here is the results of running convert-ly and then running
> > > the interpreter. There are several property-type errors...
> > > thanks
> > > Chip
> > >
> > > convert-ly -e test.ly
> > > convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2
> > > Processing `test.ly' ... Applying conversions: 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3,
> > > 2.1.4, 2.1.7, 2.1.10, 2.1.11, 2.1.12, 2.1.13, 2.1.14, 2.1.15,
> > > 2.1.16, 2.1.17, 2.1.18, 2.1.19, 2.1.20, 2.1.21, 2.1.22, 2.1.23,
> > > 2.1.24, 2.1.25, 2.1.26, 2.1.27, 2.1.28, 2.1.29, 2.1.30, 2.1.31,
> > > 2.1.33, 2.1.34, 2.1.36, 2.2.0, 
> > >
> > >
> > > Process convert-ly exited with code 0
> > >
> > >
> > > > lilypond test.ly
> > >
> > > lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.2
> > > Running lilypond-bin...
> > > Now processing `test.ly'
> > > Parsing...
> > > Interpreting music... warning: Can't find property type-check for
> > > `scriptHorizontal' (translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing
> > > error? warning: Doing assignment anyway.
> > > warning: Can't find property type-check for `scriptHorizontal'
> > > (translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing error? warning:
> > > Doing assignment anyway. warning: Can't find property type-check for
> > > `scriptHorizontal' (translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing
> > > error? warning: Doing assignment anyway.
> > > warning: Can't find property type-check for `scriptHorizontal'
> > > (translation-type?).  Perhaps you made a typing error? warning:
> > > Doing assignment anyway.[3]
> > > Preprocessing graphical objects... 
> > > Calculating line breaks... 
> > >
> > > paper output to `test.tex'...
> > >
> > > writing header field `instrument' to `test.instrument'...
> > > writing header field `title' to `test.title'...
> > > writing header field `arranger' to `test.arranger'...
> > > writing header field `poet' to `test.poet'...
> > > writing header field `opus' to `test.opus'...
> > >
> > > Analyzing test.tex...
> > > Running ...
> > > Running dvips...
> > > Running ps2pdf...
> > > DVI output to `test.dvi'...
> > > PDF output to `test.pdf'...
> > > PS output to `test.ps'...
> > > Process lilypond exited with code 0
> >
> > --
> > =============================================
> >         Mats Bengtsson
> >         Signal Processing
> >         Signals, Sensors and Systems
> >         Royal Institute of Technology
> >         SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
> >         Sweden
> >         Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
> >         Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
> >         Email: address@hidden
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        Mats Bengtsson
        Signal Processing
        Signals, Sensors and Systems
        Royal Institute of Technology
        SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
        Sweden
        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
        Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
        Email: address@hidden
        WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe
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