On Friday 05 October 2007, Hans Aberg wrote: > On 5 Oct 2007, at 01:20, Graham Percival wrote: > > Midi support in lilypond is quite limited, and this is not likely > > to change in the near future. > > Might it possible to handle this by OO (object orientation)? The idea > is that if objects can be defined (in pseudocode) > turn := default: ... > midi: ... > short: ... > quintuplet: ... > ; > And one then is able to write code like > d8^\turn[staff->short,midi->quintuplet] > if one in this position wants the turn to not be the defaults, but > then the staff to be written in the "short" form, and MIDI be written > as a quintuplets. > > The principle is quite general. So it might be useful for handing a > number of problems. The enhanced MIDI support would emerge as a > byproduct of this OO support.
I don't understand all of this, but wouldn't it be possible to achieve most of this functionality with tags? You could just use \keepWithTag #'midi when creating midi, and then tag stuff with midi in the definition of \turn. Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
