Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

[David Nalesnik]

Ben,

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:53 PM, SoundsFromSound
<address@hidden> wrote:
> David:
>
> I see, thanks for clarifying that for me.  So, in your opinion, if I wanted
> to use these aleatoric boxes on a few scores here and there, that would be
> doable - though not ideal, it would /work/- correct? I wouldn't ever need
> this type of notation on anything of a larger scale.

I think that if you're using it on single files (and not, say, with
lilypond-book), there shouldn't be a problem.  At least I haven't
noticed anything untoward.  But understand that the way the new grob
is built up with its new properties and event-class and such is not
done in a sound way.  There is currently no proper user interface for
doing this sort of thing in an .ly file.  When there is one, parts of
this file will need to be rewritten (as happened in the situation that
brought you to the list, which came about because of a step in the
direction of this new-grob-with-all-the-fixings interface made by
David Kastrup).

>
> I ask because in future scores I'll have to do something similar to this and
> want to make sure I don't corrupt my dear LilyPond install :)

No, the files are safe!

-David