Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Hi David,
>
>> Uh, { ... \bassclarinet ... } ?
>>
>> With something like
>>
>> bassclarinet = {
>> \clef F
>> \transposition c,
>> \set Staff.midiInstrument = "clarinet"
>> \set Staff.instrumentCueName = \markup \bf "cl. B"
>> \set Staff.instrumentName = "bass clarinet"
>> \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = “bc”
>
> Uh… \bf throws an error…?
> Is that a function my copy of 2.19.56 should have?
No. That was a TeXism for \bold .
> The clef changes are fine… but the transposition doesn’t work as I
> would expect/hope it would.
What did you expect/hope? This is just for Midi.
> Is there a way to extend this music-function idea to handle all of the
> requirements of an instrument switch?
It's not a music function but an expression. What _are_ "all of the
requirements"? This does what \instrumentSwitch can do now.
>> instrumentCueName would trigger a spurious cue name
>
> It does, as seen in the output of the above snippet.
>
>> the instrument cue engraver could be changed to ignore cue names
>> set before the first call of process-music.
>
> Is that the cleanest way to handle the problem?
Easiest to explain I guess.
--
David Kastrup
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