Hi Marc, On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Marc Hohl <m...@hohlart.de> wrote: > Hi list, > > I want to change the MultiMeasureRest.stencil to a squiggle as shown in the > appendices (quite roughly pasted together in GIMP). > Searching the LSR and the web does not give any informations about this > topic (the only thing I found was using the percent stencil, which is also > hardcoded in the C++ sources). > > I tried to override the stencil by > > \override MultiMeasureRest.stencil = #ly:line-spanner::print > > but this causes errors like > > "MultiMeasureRest has empty extent and non-empty stencil."
Even if you for this to work, your mockup shows a line more complex than a squiggle. You'd only be able to get a simple zigzag line, without the refinement at the ends, and without control of the "amplitude" (as if my simple example below). > > Any ideas? The easiest way to get what you want is to create a stencil callback which uses the default stencil for dimensions of a replacement stencil. The code below is a simple demonstration, which draws lines like you would get with ly:line-spanner::print. (Note that you need at least 2.19.27 for this to work.) \version "2.19.46" #(define my-stencil (lambda (grob) (let* ((default-stil (ly:multi-measure-rest::print grob)) (X-ext (ly:stencil-extent default-stil X))) (ly:line-interface::line grob (car X-ext) 0 (cdr X-ext) 0)))) { \override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.style = #'zigzag \override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.thickness = 4 \override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.stencil = #my-stencil \compressFullBarRests R1*24 R1*4 } Instead of using a simple line, you would probably want to construct your own stencil using Multi_measure_rest::big_rest as a model. This would be pretty straightforward to translate to Scheme. Perhaps a path stencil for the horizontal line? Sorry, no time for a mock-up..... Hope this helps. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user