On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Trevor, you wrote Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:26 PM
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Please don't change c[ ]!
>>>
>>> Do you really mean that you've used, say,
>>>
>>> a b[] c
>>>
>>> within your score? Currently, this is an undocumented feature, so you
>>> are use something from the darker corners of lilypond...
>>>
>>>
>>> Darker corners, indeed.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> The two snippets attached here come from the commission I just finished up
>> in February ...
>>
>> In general I'm using the two-sided nibs or stubs to indicate a lone note
>> (ie, preceded and followed by a rest) sitting within a governing beam.
>> (100%
>> of the beaming in my scores like this is manual.)
>>
>> Maybe a quick mention of c[ ] in the manual could alert other modern(ist)
>> composers of the availability of the feature?
>>
>
> Happy to do so. Could you please provide a minimal snippet to show
> how this might be used in practice? The examples you attached are
> too complex to illustrate the point, and the simplistic examples I've tried
> don't look good.
OK, great!
Maybe something like this?
%%%%%%% FLAT FLAGS & BEAM NIBS %%%%%
Flat flags on lone notes and beam nibs at the ends of beamed figures are
both possible with a combination of stemLeftBeamCount, stemRightBeamCount
and paired [ ] beam indicators.
For right-pointing flat flags on lone notes, use paired [ ] beam indicators
and set stemRightBeamCount to zero.
\new RhythmicStaff {
\set stemRightBeamCount = #0
c'16 [ ]
r8.
}
For left-pointing flat flags, set stemRightBeamCount instead.
\new RythmicStaff {
r8.
\set stemRightBeamCount = #0
c'16 [ ]
}
For right-pointing nibs at the end of a run of beamed notes, set
stemRightBeamCount to a positive value. And for left-pointing nibs at the
start of a run of beamed notes, set stemLeftBeamCount instead.
\new RhythmicStaff {
c'16
c'16
\set stemRightBeamCount = #2
c'16
r16
r16
\set stemLeftBeamCount = #2
c'16
c'16
c'16
}
Sometimes it may make sense for a lone note surrounded by rests to carry
both a left- and right-pointing flat flag. Do this with paired [ ] beam
indicators alone.
\new RhythmicStaff {
c'16
c'16
\set stemRightBeamCount = #2
c'16
r16
c'16 [ ]
r16
\set stemLeftBeamCount = #2
c'16
c'16
}
%%%%%%%%%
Writing these, I realize that we get more realistic examples with paired [ ]
beam indicators combined with stemLeftBeamCount / stemRightBeamCount. So the
examples here introduce both.
Do these help?
--
Trevor Bača
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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