Re: Staff.connectArpeggios not connecting all arpeggios

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Perfect, thanks a lot.

Yes, I was unaware that \arpeggioBracket just changed the current stencil, I
mistakenly thought it was "active" like \arpeggio different only by what it
renders.  I will re-wrap them similar to your example.




Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote:
> 
> I think you have misunderstood what the macro \arpeggioBracket does.
> It doesn't draw an arpeggio itself, it just tells that all future
> arpeggios should be drawn as brackets instead of squiggled lines.
> 
> Also, the macro only sets the arpeggio type in the current Voice
> context, whereas if you set connectArpeggios, they will be drawn within 
> the Staff context. The solution to this is to redefine the normal 
> \arpeggioBracket macro (which is defined in ly/property-init.ly)
> so that it does the setting at the Staff level. I have also added a new 
> macro \arpeggioNormal that reverts to the default layout. Then, your 
> example could look something like:
> 
> arpeggioBracket =
>   \override Staff.Arpeggio #'stencil = #ly:arpeggio::brew-chord-bracket
> 
> 
> arpeggioNormal = \revert Staff.Arpeggio #'stencil
> 
> varVoiceMelody = \relative c'' {
> %1
> \arpeggioBracket e4 \arpeggio \arpeggioNormal g\arpeggio 
> \arpeggioBracket e\arpeggio  \arpeggioNormal e\arpeggio
> |
> %2
> \arpeggioBracket e\arpeggio gs\arpeggio \arpeggioBracket e\arpeggio
> e\arpeggio
> |
> %3
> e1\arpeggio
> |
> }
> 
> varVoiceInner = \relative c' {
> \stemDown
> %1
> s4 <e g c>\arpeggio s <e g c>\arpeggio
> |
> %2
> s4 <d b' d>\arpeggio s <e gs d' e>\arpeggio
> |
> %3
> s1
> |
> }
> 
> varVoiceBass = \relative c'' {
> %1
> \arpeggioBracket c,2\arpeggio g2\arpeggio
> |
> %2
> e2\arpeggio b'2\arpeggio
> |
> %3
> e1\arpeggio
> |
> }
> 
>    \new Staff \with {
>          \consists Span_arpeggio_engraver
>    }
>    {
>       \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t
>           \clef "treble"
>            \key c \major
>            \time 4/4
>           <<
>           \new Voice="voiceMelody" { \voiceOne \varVoiceMelody \oneVoice }
> \\
>           \new Voice="voiceInner" { \voiceThree \stemNeutral
> \varVoiceInner
> \oneVoice } \\
>           \new Voice="voiceBass" { \voiceTwo \varVoiceBass \oneVoice }
>           >>
>           \oneVoice
> 
>    }
> 
> 
> Of course, you could also redefine the \arpeggioBracket command to only 
> do the setting \once.
> 
>    /Mats
> 
> 
> Quoting "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden>:
> 
>>
>> In the short example that follows the regular \arpeggio is connecting
>> itself
>> nicely across all 3 voices.  However \arpeggioBracket fails to connect
>> itself.  The desire in measures 1 and 2 below is to have beats 2 and 4
>> have
>> standard arpeggios and beats 1 and 3 to have bracket arpeggios.  The 3rd
>> measure just demonstrates that the standard arpeggio connects fine in a
>> situation where I would need to use \arpeggioBracket.  (\arpeggioBracket
>> is
>> very common to classical guitar notation where voices need to be sounded
>> simultaneously.)
>>
>> The example below will run as-is.
>>
>> How can I get \arpeggioBracket to appear across voices on all beats 1 and
>> 3
>> of this example?
>>
>>
>>
>> %EXAMPLE BEGIN
>>
>> \version "2.9.17"
>> \include "english.ly"
>>
>> varVoiceMelody = \relative c'' {
>> %1
>> e4\arpeggioBracket g\arpeggio e\arpeggioBracket e\arpeggio
>> |
>> %2
>> e\arpeggioBracket gs\arpeggio e\arpeggioBracket e\arpeggio
>> |
>> %3
>> e1\arpeggio
>> |
>> }
>>
>> varVoiceInner = \relative c' {
>> \stemDown
>> %1
>> s4 <e g c>\arpeggio s <e g c>\arpeggio
>> |
>> %2
>> s4 <d b' d>\arpeggio s <e gs d' e>\arpeggio
>> |
>> %3
>> s1
>> |
>> }
>>
>> varVoiceBass = \relative c'' {
>> %1
>> c,2\arpeggioBracket g2\arpeggioBracket
>> |
>> %2
>> e2\arpeggioBracket b'2\arpeggioBracket
>> |
>> %3
>> e1\arpeggio
>> |
>> }
>>
>>   \new Staff \with {
>>         \consists Span_arpeggio_engraver
>>   }
>>   {
>>      \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t
>>      \clef "treble"
>>      \key c \major
>>      \time 4/4
>>      <<
>>      \new Voice="voiceMelody" { \voiceOne \varVoiceMelody \oneVoice } \\
>>      \new Voice="voiceInner" { \voiceThree \stemNeutral \varVoiceInner
>> \oneVoice } \\
>>      \new Voice="voiceBass" { \voiceTwo \varVoiceBass \oneVoice }
>>      >>
>>      \oneVoice
>>
>>   }
>>
>>
>> %EXAMPLE END
>>
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