Re: Swing/Shuffle rhythmMark

[David Wright]

On Tue 17 Dec 2019 at 22:27:35 (+0100), address@hidden wrote:
> I'm starting to typeset a songbook (or song sheets) for a
> singer-songwriter friend of mine who is about to launch another
> swiss-german children songs cd.
> 
> First hurdle:
> 
> I'd like to typeset a shuffled/swinged melody with 8th only instead of
> - a8. a16 a8. a16 (punctuated) or
> - \tuplet 3/2 {a4 a8}
> 
> which both make the score extremely cluttered.
> 
> I tried the example from http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=204,
> where "Swing" or "Shuffle" would be exactly what I'm looking for.
> I copy&pasted the entire functions an example code from this link into a
> single file (commenting line 274 "system-system-spacing ..." which
> throws a return code 1).
> The output of both functions \rhythmMark and \rhythmMarkC is missing the
> note heads. (additionally the \rhythmMarkC function prints the text
> strings in the middle of the system (3rd line as baseline) instead of
> over the sytem in front of the rhythmic patterns.)
> 
> In the snippet source code there are links to the v2.18 documentation
> which indicates that the code at least worked with 2.18. I'm running
> 2.19.83. Might this be the reason for the errors? How to fix the errors?
> (No idea about scheme programming :-/ ) I uninstalled v2.18 from my
> system quite a while ago.
> 
> Or are there other hints how to address my challenge?

This is how I do swing for teach-tapes. Obviously, swing-1.midi is
the one I circulate. Sorry I don't have a reference for the .scm
file. If it helps trace it, the metadata follows, assuming I didn't
edit it at the time.

 14100 2014-01-19 06:33:37.000000000 +0000 /tmp/swing.scm

Cheers,
David.

swing.ly
Description: Text document

swing.scm
Description: Text document

swing.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

swing.midi
Description: MIDI audio

swing-1.midi
Description: MIDI audio