Re: Checkpoints

2022-11-19 Thread Mark Knoop
At 11:46 on 19 Nov 2022, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >>> p.s. Jean: Any reason why this shouldn’t be in the core codebase?! >>> I will gladly take this one on — including documentation — if it’s >>> patch-worthy. >> >> IMHO it is. > and watched everything Do The Right Thing™. The only buglet I've

Re: Checkpoints

2022-11-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, >> p.s. Jean: Any reason why this shouldn’t be in the core codebase?! >> I will gladly take this one on — including documentation — if it’s >> patch-worthy. > > IMHO it is. I just changed s4*3*5 in global to s4*3*10 and watched everything Do The Right Thing™. I’m not too

Re: Checkpoints

2022-11-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> > > Oh, goodness… This is like a Plato’s Cave moment for me in Lilypond. > I honestly can’t believe I haven’t had this in my quiver. Unless > somebody (Jean? David K?) says this is somehow a sub-optimal > implementation, I am using this in everything from now on. Indeed, this looks

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, > Oh, goodness… This is like a Plato’s Cave moment for me in Lilypond. I honestly can’t believe I haven’t had this in my quiver. Unless somebody (Jean? David K?) says this is somehow a sub-optimal implementation, I am using this in everything from now on. Thank you so much! Kieren.

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-19 Thread Mark Knoop
At 08:59 on 19 Nov 2022, Kieren MacMillan wrote: >> I have been using \alignTo for years for this purpose, I think >> originally from this thread: >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-12/msg01296.html > I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I was on that thread and totally >

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mark, > I have been using \alignTo for years for this purpose, I think originally > from this thread: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-12/msg01296.html I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I was on that thread and totally forgot about it! Can you provide a MWE of the

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-18 Thread Mark Knoop
At 11:01 on 18 Nov 2022, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi Jean, >> Well, it's not too hard to implement them. > In the hopes that it’s also not too hard for Super-Jean to implement > anchors… ;) > Is there a world in which one could write something like > global = { > \anchor #'intro > s1*8

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-18 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Jean, > >> Well, it's not too hard to implement them. > > In the hopes that it’s also not too hard for Super-Jean to implement anchors… > ;) > > Is there a world in which one could write something like > > global = { > \anchor #'intro > s1*8 > \anchor #'verse

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > Well, it's not too hard to implement them. In the hopes that it’s also not too hard for Super-Jean to implement anchors… ;) Is there a world in which one could write something like global = { \anchor #'intro s1*8 \anchor #'verse s1*8 \anchor #'chorus s1*8 } and then

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
only in the long combined score that I'm getting trouble; and I guess I can try adding another tag group.  But everything *looks* visually in the right bars Checkpoints would also allow for finer granularity.  But now that I've thought my way through how to use `\barNumberCheck`, I'll try

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-17 Thread Joel C. Salomon
* visually in the right bars Checkpoints would also allow for finer granularity. But now that I've thought my way through how to use `\barNumberCheck`, I'll try the tool I actually have rather than wishing for a tool that doesn't exist. --Joel

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-17 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 17/11/2022 à 16:58, Joel C. Salomon a écrit : (Motivation: I got bit by the "programming error: could not find this grob's vertical axis group in the vertical alignment" issue in one score.  Searching the list indicates this is probably a misalignment somewhere, but I've still not succeeded

Re: Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joel, > Is it even possible to query the temporal position, to enable some form of > checkpoints? This is the complement to my "anchor" idea (which would define the checkpoint), so I imagine they could both be implemented together, as a pair of interconnected features…? Cheers, Kieren.

Checkpoints (was re: Adding durations (for \after))

2022-11-17 Thread Joel C. Salomon
that LilyPond will have the facility to mark temporal points in various parts so that they can be aligned without counting out the beats correctly in each one.” Is it even possible to query the temporal position, to enable some form of checkpoints? Basic notion I'm thinking of is, \checkpoint can appear