On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 4:30 AM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> On 2020-01-19 7:15 am, Paolo Prete wrote: > > I'm looking at your code and I don't understand what is it intended to > > do. > > You write: "% Test with bracket that is positioned by Y-offset." > > but from what I see, the bracket is positioned by both > > outside-staff-padding and y-offset inside \shiftOttavaBracket. > > What do you mean, then? > > In addition, please can you write at the beginning of the snippet what > > you > > are going to demonstrate? IIUC, what you are going to demonstrate is > > something that depends on the result of another snippet. Please, can > > you > > put all in the same example? Otherwise all becomes too hard to be > > understood/used. > > It seems that email might not be the best medium of communication for > this. I am taking a page out of Knuth's handbook with something akin to > literate programming. Lacking a suitable TeX environment that works > with LilyPond, I chose to do everything in a monolithic LY file. > > May you find attached a compiled PDF with its LY source file. I cannot > promise the LY is the *most* readable, but I have tried to keep things > as organized as possible. Likewise, I have done a few passes of > proof-reading over the document, but at this point I am unlikely to spot > any typos that remain. And rather than delay this further, I am sending > out what I have, for better or worse. > > Due to the nature of this presentation, there are parts of the LY file > that are not directly relevant to the subject--including a number of > helper functions for overlaying graphics on grobs, as well as a kludgy > solution for including the text of a code snippet in the final document > while also executing it. Between just reading the PDF by itself and > then along side the LY source, I hope it will not be too difficult to > sort the wheat from the chaff. > Hi Aaron, This is such a generous way of communicating your problem-solving approach. Thank you for taking the time to write it up; I learned details of grob spacing that I didn't know I'd been missing for several years. Trevor. -- Trevor Bača www.trevorbaca.com soundcloud.com/trevorbaca
