Hi Jay
I'd rewite the sentence containing 'adorn' as:
There are two music functions, balloonGrobText and balloonText. The former is
used like rather like \once \override to attach text to any grob, and the
latter is used like \tweak, typically within chords, to attach text to an
individual note when there are several occuring at the same musical moment.
Perhaps a clearer example would be:
\new Voice \with { \consists Balloon_engraver }
{
\balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { I'm a Stem }
a'8
c' g'-\balloonText #'(-2 . -2) \markup { I'm a note head } c''8
}
HTH
Trevor
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Subject: Re:what does adorn mean in this context?
question continues GDP
I knew/know what adorn in English and
articulations are in music however in the context
of 1.7.2.1 of the GDP they don't seem to mean
that. What is 'adorned' here? Does it mean
enhanced? (not to me) And looking at the code
and seeing the result does anyone see a
difference between text and GrobText?
Just need an clearer way to say whatever it is
that is happening with this code.
Thanks in advance.
Yours-
Jay
Jay Hamilton
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:20:09 +0100
From: Nicholas WASTELL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what does adorn mean in this context? GDP
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:26:58 -0800
Jay Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two music functions, balloonGrobText
and balloonText; the former takes the name of the
grob to adorn, while the latter may be used as an
articulation on a note. The other arguments are
the offset and the text of the label.
the words after the semicolon (;) look like
they make sense but adorn and articulation don't
really make sense
I'm a native English (en-GB) speaker, but I am
not familiar with the balloon function. ;-) However:
To adorn is to decorate and enhance. It's rather
an old-fashioned word, I suppose.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adorn
Articulation in this context is a musical term, meaning a mark (e.g., accent,
staccato dot, stopped mark) against a note showing how it should be delivered
(i.e., articulated). http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/articulation
It doesn't explain (to me) the difference between the two functions. I'd have
a look in LSR, but it appears to be down at the moment.
hth,
Nick.
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Nicholas WASTELL
France
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