Re: Articulation with parenthesis-open and with parenthesis-close?

[Rutger Hofman]

On 09/28/2012 01:34 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On 28/09/2012 12:06, Rutger Hofman wrote:
> > in my current score, there are long, consecutive lists of notes with
> > articulations (dashes) in parentheses. Now it would improve
> > readability a lot if the first of these parenthesized dashes has only
> > a parenthesis-open, the last has only a parenthesis-close, and the
> > rest has a regular parenthesis. I have seen this in printed music more
> > than once.
>
> Coincidentally, I had the same problem the day before yesterday. Here is
> what I have (using the \parenthesize command and modifying its behavior):
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> #(define-public (parentheses-item::calc-parenthesis-left-stencils grob)
>    (let* ((font (ly:grob-default-font grob)))
>      (list (ly:font-get-glyph font "accidentals.leftparen") empty-stencil)))
>
> #(define-public (parentheses-item::calc-parenthesis-right-stencils grob)
>    (let* ((font (ly:grob-default-font grob)))
>      (list empty-stencil (ly:font-get-glyph font "accidentals.rightparen"))))
>
> parenthesizeLeft = #(define-music-function (parser loc arg) (ly:music?)
> #{
>    -\tweak ParenthesesItem #'stencils
> #parentheses-item::calc-parenthesis-left-stencils
>    -\parenthesize $arg
> #})
> parenthesizeRight = #(define-music-function (parser loc arg) (ly:music?)
> #{
>    -\tweak ParenthesesItem #'stencils
> #parentheses-item::calc-parenthesis-right-stencils
>    -\parenthesize $arg
> #})
>
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
> The \parenthesizeLeft and \parenthesizeRight work exactly like
> \parenthesize, i.e.:
>
>    e4.-\parenthesizeLeft->\> <e c>4.-\parenthesizeRight-> | % 3
>
>
> HTH,
> Reinhold

Thanks, this is great!

Rutger