Re: Incipits

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2008/2/11, Nicolas Sceaux <address@hidden>:
> > - If I'm reading this correctly, this is all a grand hack to add a
> > little staff to an instrument name.   I don't see the essential
> > difference between this and
> >
> >  \set instrumentName = \markup { \score { .. } the-real-name }
> >
> > except that this is longer, more error prone and less flexible. Again,
> > what problem are you trying to solve?
>
> The problem I was trying to solve is to separate the definition
> of the instrument name, from the one of the incipit. They are not
> the same thing, and should be entered separetely. It's well enough
> to explicitely write
>    \set instrumentName = \markup { \score { .. } the-real-name }
> when you have a single piece to typeset. It really sucks when you
> have hundreds. (I have more than 600 pieces that would use this
> incipit thing.)

I though we had mechanisms to create more generic/parametrized markups.

> That would address the points you raised in your answer.
> Are you ok with this (much less enormous) patch?

This looks much better. I would probably just scm-ify
Score::add_output_def(), rather than have the optarg, though.

Please go ahead.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen