Re: varC clefs in 2.19

[James]

On 30/05/14 10:24, James wrote:
> On 29/05/14 23:11, address@hidden wrote:
> > I was just looking over the "changes" page for the current 
> > development version (2.19.x) and the section with the new clef glyphs 
> > caught my eye.  The example given for; \clef "varC" *seems* to be 
> > alto clef only.
>
> Yes that seems right from the file changes.
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commit;h=476c0adbf748f1adcb6927a6197d13f3790c8a9b 
>
>
> scm/parser-clef.scm is the file that (I think) determines the position.
>
>
> > This clef in any position is a 'C' clef as it marks middle C.  I'm 
> > sure it must be possible to redefine the clef's position somehow, but 
> > this strikes me as an oversight, especially with all the other clef 
> > transpositions which are readily available.
> Seems to be a documentation oversight actually if you look at the diff 
> for the file parser-clef.scm there _is_ a tenor version.
>
> I'm not a programmer, but I seem to remember trying to document these 
> other clefs in that are in this file more coherently in, say, the 
> appendix. I just never got fully around to it.
>
> However can you see if this 'tenor' version is what you wanted?
>
> James

Sorry for replying to my own post. I forget sometimes that not everyone 
necessarily reads the code or cares about looking in the code tree in git

Assuming you can understand these files I am referring to then it should 
be obvious, but just in case (and so I apologize if I am patronizing 
you) you should be able to use

\clef "tenorvarC"

James