Dear David, On 14 July 2016 at 00:01, David Nalesnik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> I would like to have: >> >> - a thick horizontal line for "push" and nothing at all on "pull", no >> vertical lines >> >> - it should start and stop at the vertical bar (if the push/pull stops >> at '|', otherwise "cover the appropriate durations" below the pitches) >> >> - probably something like \startPush to start the thick line, then >> perhaps specify the duration with something like "s1 s1", followed by >> \startPull that would disable >> (It would be soooooo much better if \startPush and \startPull could be >> placed in the first staff with melody, between the pitches, so that >> one wouldn't have to think twice about the proper duration of that >> thick line.) >> >> - the vertical position should be somewhere below the lyrics > > This is a situation which calls for a new Grob. Unfortunately, > there's no user interface for doing this, but it is possible to mess > with internals and create the following file. (Which I don't > guarantee :) )
Wow! That's a piece of code! > The horizontal positioning is automatic. Wonderful! > Not so vertical positioning. > Putting the line midway between the staves automatically is a > difficult problem, and I don't know enough to solve it. You can > override Staff.AccordionPushSpanner.staff-padding to move the line > vertically. Based on your comment % Change vertical position of spanner. Sorry, not automatic. I just wanted to add that my intention wasn't to put the horizontal line into "arithmetic centre" of the whitespace between the staves. Actually it makes a lot more sense to keep the height of the line pretty much constant within a single line. So it looks better to me when I *remove* \override Staff.AccordionPushSpanner.staff-padding = 2 from the middle of the first line. Bottomline: what you thought to be a problem doesn't seem to be a problem at all. > As far as position relative to lyrics, it's helpful to know that you > can override the direction property of the spanner. > > This is rough, but hopefully it will get you started. Wonderful. I will need some time to fully digest the code. One minor "problems" I noticed: In the basses I can use f1-4^\markup {"f"} and the finger position is OK, but \markup{"f"} is placed above the horizontal line. This is not critical (yet?). A few more questions (before I dive into the code): - Is there any rule or a guideline to decide whether to put repeats (\repeat volta 2 ...) in the upper or in the bottom stave? - The way you implemented these lines, is there a way to access the state (pushing or pulling) in the upper stave? (I would eventually want to do more complex things with it, but for simplicity let's say that I would want all the pitches in the upper stave to be red while pushing, or if I would additionally want to add \upbow or \downbow symbols in the upper line.) I'm not asking for the code to do the colouring just yet, I just want to know whether lilypond has access to the variable that would let me do it at some point. Many many thanks, Mojca _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user