On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:01 AM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
>
> As is tradition, I am almost certainly over-engineering here. However,
> would the following approach be of any use:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.20.0"
>
> transformText =
> #(define-music-function
> (grob-path proc)
> ((key-list? 'TextScript) procedure?)
> #{ \override $grob-path . before-line-breaking =
> #(grob-transformer 'before-line-breaking
> (lambda (grob orig)
> (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'text
> (proc (ly:grob-property grob 'text))))) #})
>
> boxIt = #(lambda (text) (markup #:box text))
> flipIt = #(lambda (text) (markup #:rotate 180 text))
> sizeIt =
> #(define-scheme-function (size) (number?)
> (lambda (text) (markup #:abs-fontsize size text)))
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Staff
> \transformText \sizeIt #8
> }
> }
>
> \score {
> \new Staff { b'2.^"Lorem" \once \transformText \boxIt b'4_"ipsum" }
> \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 8) }
> }
> \score {
> \new Staff { b'2.^"Lorem" b'4_"ipsum" }
> \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 13) }
> }
> \score {
> \new Staff { \once \transformText \flipIt b'2.^"Lorem" b'4_"ipsum" }
> \layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 21) }
> }
> %%%%
>
>
That's great too!
