Re: Are these results possible with LilyPond?

[Benedikt Hager]

Hi Reinhold!

Thanks  a lot for all the advices.

I didn't know that sth like LSR even existed -- so your informations mean a 
huge leap forward for me!

Benedikt

PS: Beste Grüße von der Uni Wien…


On 18.11.2009, at 23:38, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 20:01:23 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
>> Hi Benedikt,
>> 
>> The LSR is your friend!  =)
> 
> The URL is 
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/
> 
>>> A: Bracketed clefs, time signatures and key signatures at the
>>> beginning of a staf or piece.
>>> B, D, E: Bracketed elements of almost any kind within a staf.
>> 
>> <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=564>
> 
> Yes, that can be used to bracketify note, rests, articulations, etc.
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=564
> 
> (It's better to give the link to /LSR/Item rathern than /LSR/Snippet, since 
> the former will show the image of the result...)
> 
> Other bracketing functions for other types of objects:
> -) time signature in brackets:
>    http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=169
> -) clefs and key signatures in brackets:
>    http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=647
> 
> -) dynamic marks in parentheses (simply replace ( and ) by [ and ] to get
>    square brackets instead):
>    http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=382
> -) brackets around whole passages of music
>    http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=377
> -) brackets in markup:
>    http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=252
> 
> 
> Bracketifying dots (in dotted notes and dotted rests) can be done similarly 
> to 
> clefs/key/time signature. Unfortunately, though, the brackets are not 
> properly 
> aligned and have the wrong height (since the dot's stencil seems to have 
> suboptimal stencil extents...), so the following snippet needs some more love 
> to make it really usable in professional scores:
> 
> dotBracketed = {
>  \once\override Dots #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (bracketify-stencil
>         (ly:dots::print grob) Y 0.1 0.1 0 ))
> }
> \relative c'' {
>  \time 12/8
>  c4. r4. \dotBracketed c4. \dotBracketed r4.
> }
> 
> 
> I think that we should probably collect such functions for critical editions 
> in a critical-edition.ily include file, so they are available in the standard 
> lilypond distribution.
> 
> 
>>> C, F: Struck through elements of any kind
>> 
>> You might want to box the element
>> 
>> <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=99>
>> 
>> and then change the box stencil to have a diagonal "strikethrough".
>> This will be more effort than the first, I fear.
> 
> If you only want to strike through one grob (graphical object), then you can 
> define your own function (like the make-stencil-boxer or bracketify-stencil), 
> which simply combines the given stencil with your own created strike-through-
> line.
> 
> However, I suppose that in most cases, you don't want to strike through only 
> one graphical object (one note head or one stem or one dot or one rest or one 
> accidental), but rather a whole group. This problem is harder, and I'm 
> currently not aware of a solution to this problem. (Another complication is 
> that the striken notes should not count towards the measure length / time 
> signature!)
> 
> So, in your example, 
> A is solved, 
> B needs some more tweaking (but is easily possible), 
> C is hard and probably needs some ugly hacks rather than an elegant solution
> D is solved,
> F is solved
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
> * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
> * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
> * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org