Hi all
I have been experimenting with Lilypond over the past week or so and have a
few questions.
- using ^"..." it is possible to place performance notes (for example, "DS
al coda") above a staff. Is there any way of including feta symbols
in these strings *as well as* standard text. For example, "DS al XX"
where XX is the coda symbol from the feta font. Doing ^"DS al "\coda
simply stacks the symbol and string, whereas I want it inline.
- it would be useful to be able to right align text to the end of a bar
(or a note for that matter). For example, "DS al Fine" and "Fine"
performance notes are conventionally right-aligned with the end of the
bar they are printed over, but I can't seem to find a way to do this
currently. Right aligning against notes can be done using \makebox
commmands in conjunction with the Staff.textEmptyDimension property;
perhaps right aligning with the end of a bar could be done by creating
an "anchor note" which isn't printed nor does it count in the bar timings
(as "s" spaces do) but which can have text attached to it in the same way
as standard notes.
- is there any plans to support drum notation? Conceptually this should
not be difficult as support for the different noteheads is already
present. Probably the only necessary addition would be inclusion of a
drum notation "clef" in the feta font which typically consists of two
thick "bar lines" extending over the middle 3 staff lines, and maybe
a symbol for the "|//|" symbol seen in the first example below to
indicate the repetition of the previous N bars. See
http://tinny.eis.net.au/~bobpeele/charts.html <Very clear>
http://www.m-base.com/drums.html
for examples of drum notation.
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Thanks for a great piece of software!
jonathan
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