FOLLOW UP:
I partially solved my own problem. I added the \columnClef statement to the
layout block in "draw-staff-symbol.ily", on the line below \Staff. It works
now, but another reasons I thought instrumentName would work better is that
it's very hard to read the vowel clef when it's printed on top of the staff,
instead of just before it. I can't seem to get the "officially a clef" version
to shift to just left of the staff.
Would going back to an instrument name based construction make this simpler
and easier? How would I modify the code to do that?
On Dec 8 2020, at 1:53 pm, Michael Blankenship <blanken...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Lukas and Leo,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the response! I tried to frame the original question as simply as
> possible, so I left some things out that have now become relevant. One of the
> reasons I was trying to use instrument names is that I actually want to use a
> more extensive version of the "clef" before the first system, and a
> simplified version for the rest of the systems. The clef is for a larger
> project I'm working on to transcribe the sounds of lyrics as musical objects.
> So the clef lists the vowels that each space of the staff represents. So,
> they could be encoded as clefs, and one would just have to specify a
> different clef for the first system, but if they're encoded as instrument
> names, the software would automatically do the change in clef. I don't know
> enough to know if one way is better than the other, but whichever way, I
> still am having issues.
>
>
>
> I put the latest code Lukas sent out into the larger context of the lyric
> notation library, and every time I tried adding:
>
> \columnClef \markuplist { i ɪ ɛ æ ʌ ɑ ɝ ɔ oʊ ʊ u }
>
> to the lyric-notation.ily file, it either produced an output that just
> didn't have the clef, or it threw an error, usually an "unexpected" exception
> like:
>
> Parsing...
>
> /Users/blankens10/Documents/GitHub/lyric-notation-master/lyric-notation.ily:73:36:
> error: syntax error, unexpected SYMBOL
>
> \columnClef \markuplist
>
> i ɪ ɛ æ
> ʌ ɑ ɝ ɔ oʊ ʊ u
>
> /Users/blankens10/Documents/GitHub/lyric-notation-master/lyric-notation.ily:73:36:
> error: not a note name: i
>
> \columnClef \markuplist
>
> i ɪ ɛ æ
> ʌ ɑ ɝ ɔ oʊ ʊ u
>
> etc.
>
>
>
> Here's the link for the lyric notation library
> (https://gitlab.com/jeanas/lyric-notation), so maybe you can help me figure
> out where to put the code so it works correctly?
>
> I added all Lukas's code through the definition of columnClef to
> "draw-staff-symbol.ily" and I figured the line
>
> \columnClef \markuplist { i ɪ ɛ æ ʌ ɑ ɝ ɔ oʊ ʊ u }
>
> should be added to "lyric-notation.ily" somewhere. But every place I tried
> it, it didn't work. I wasn't sure if it should go inside the \with statement
> under \new RhythmicStaff, or if it should go in a context block somewhere?
>
>
>
> Ugg, being a dumb newb is such an impotent feeling, one that I'm not used to
> being on this side of.
>
> Any additional help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
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> On Dec 8 2020, at 4:48 am, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Hi Leo,
> >
> >
> > Am 07.12.20 um 23:36 schrieb Leo Correia de Verdier:
> >
> > > I’m not sure if this is an interesting suggestion, but if you want this
> > > as the actual clef you could write
> >
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> > > \once \override Staff.Clef.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
> >
> > > \once \override Staff.Clef.text = \markup {
> >
> > > \override #'(font-size . -6.5)
> >
> > > \unit-height-column { First second third fourth fifth sixth
> > > seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh } }
> >
> > > \once \override Staff.Clef.Y-offset = #5
> >
> > > \clef treble % or whatever
> >
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >
> > That's an excellent suggestion - I remember when I read Michael's
> >
> > question I thought: If we want "a sort of clef", we should use a \clef
> >
> > for it. But of course that changes the layout (even though one might use
> >
> > a whiteout property to hide the staff lines).
> >
> >
> > I moved your logic into a function (and replaced your explicit Y-offset
> >
> > by 0 combined with Y-centering the markup):
> >
> >
> > \version "2.21.80"
> >
> >
> > #(define-markup-command (force-unit-height layout props arg) (markup?)
> >
> > (let* ((y-centered-arg (markup #:general-align 1 0 arg))
> >
> > (stil (interpret-markup layout props y-centered-arg))
> >
> > (x (ly:stencil-extent stil 0))
> >
> > (y (cons -1/2 1/2)))
> >
> > (ly:stencil-outline stil (make-filled-box-stencil x y))))
> >
> >
> > #(define-markup-command (unit-height-column layout props args)
> >
> > (markup-list?)
> >
> > (interpret-markup layout props #{
> >
> > \markup {
> >
> > \override #'(baseline-skip . 0)
> >
> > \center-column \force-unit-height #args
> >
> > } #} ))
> >
> >
> > columnClef =
> >
> > #(define-music-function (contents) (markup-list?)
> >
> > #{
> >
> > \once \override Staff.Clef.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
> >
> > \once \override Staff.Clef.Y-offset = 0
> >
> > \once \override Staff.Clef.text = \markup {
> >
> > \override #'(font-size . -6.5)
> >
> > \general-align #Y #CENTER
> >
> > \unit-height-column #contents
> >
> > }
> >
> > #})
> >
> >
> > \new Staff {
> >
> > \columnClef \markuplist { first second third fourth }
> >
> > a'4
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > Lukas
> >
> >
>
