Re: sprechstimme

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:01:02 +0200
Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:54 -0700, D Josiah Boothby wrote:
>  > I searched the lilypond-user and lilypond-devel archives and wasn't
>  > able to find anything regarding sprechstimme, though I seem to
>  > recall that there was a thread a couple months ago asking about it.
>  > 
>  > Is it supported in Lilypond? If not, has anyone found a way to
>  > insert the little "x" onto the halfway point of a stem?
> 
>  No, it's not supported, AFAIK, but I'd be glad to implement it as a
>  sponosered feature.

Isn't/shouldn't stuff like this be possible to implement by the user
(with some scheme hacks)? You can not ever implement every users whish
for some special notation. IMO this should be extendible by the user.

If I understand it correctly, it's possible to hook into the print
functions? so in this case you could hook into the stem printing call
and insert some code to draw the "x". Is the output-functions available
in scheme or must you insert postscript code directly? (it would be nice
if there is backend-independent functions available in scheme to draw
lines and text and stuff like that so the same code would work for
all/most backends).

It would be very nice with some more docs about this! =)

For example, I am looking for a way to do textspanners with an arrowed
line between them. This is used to modulate between two instructions, in
my case I want to have "board --------> bridge" written above the system
where "board" and "bridge" are attached to notes. I think this would be
a quite usably feature for many users, but I don't have any money to pay
anyone with so I guess I'll have to code it myself.

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-