If not too late, here is an example, based on Jeans code in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-09/msg00209.html
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% convertToSkips = #(define-music-function (music) (ly:music?) (music-map (lambda (m) (if (or (music-is-of-type? m 'rest-event) (music-is-of-type? m 'note-event)) (make-music 'SkipEvent m) m)) music)) \convertToSkips { r2\p <e' d'> c'4( d)\ff s4 r4 } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Take care with things that ar still interpreted, like Scripts. > 26 apr. 2023 kl. 22:55 skrev Leo Correia de Verdier > <leo.correia.de.verd...@gmail.com>: > > You can do like this if it’s useful to you, removing the engravers that read > what you don’t want at a specific place. > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \version "2.25.1" > > rh = \fixed c' {c4\pp d\p e\f f\ff} > > \score { > << > \new Voice \with { > \remove Dynamic_engraver } > \rh > \new Dynamics %Dynamics context doesn’t have the Note_Heads_Engraver anyway > \rh >>> > } > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > Otherwise it is possible to create music functions that replace notes and > rests with spacers or remove dynamics, but I can’t do that for you at the > moment. While they’re not difficult functions they’re not ”built-in”. > > The second question is also probably not too hard to write a function for, > but you’ll probably need to be a little more specific about the use case, > perhaps also supply example code. > > Best wishes > /Leo >> 26 apr. 2023 kl. 22:23 skrev Gianmaria Lari <gianmarial...@gmail.com>: >> >> First question >> Suppose I wrote this score: >> >> \version "2.25.2" >> rh = \fixed c' {c4\pp d\p e\f f\ff} >> >> \score { >> \new Staff \rh >> } >> >> Is there any "automatic" way to extract the dynamics in the score (maybe >> assigning it to a variable)? >> At the end I would like to easily transform the previous code in the >> following one: >> >> \version "2.25.2" >> rh = \fixed c' {c4 d e f} >> dy = {s4\pp s4\p s4\f s4\ff} >> \score { >> << >> \new Staff \rh >> \new Dynamics \dy >>>> >> } >> >> Second question >> Sometimes I copy a long score without the dynamic and add them separately >> later. For this operation I need to establish the dynamic location in the >> score counting and adding the notes length. This is tedious and error prone. >> Is there any way to make it? >> >> Thanks, >> Gianmaria >