Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > To LilyPond, braces indicate sequential music. Well, clearly there’s more going on than simply “sequential music”, or else \transpose c c’ { c d } would be no different than \transpose c c’ { c } d which clearly isn’t true. > Of course it sees the subsequent braces and

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> { ^.^> } is equivalent to \sequential { ^.^> } which neither makes sense nor >> works. > > Well, as a function, > >\parenthesize { ^.^> } > > makes total sense to me, That's your privilege. To LilyPond, braces

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> To LilyPond, braces indicate sequential music. > > Well, clearly there’s more going on than simply “sequential music”, or else > > \transpose c c’ { c d } > > would be no different than > > \transpose c c’ { c } d >

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Bernard writes: > Thanks Simon. Perfect. I also sometimes have trouble coming up with > names for these things! The "parenthesize" property is a boolean. Maybe it should be a boolean-or-symbol ? And if it's a symbol, the respective engraver collects all

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread Andrew Bernard
Thanks Simon. Perfect. I also sometimes have trouble coming up with names for these things! Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 01.02.2016 11:38, David Kastrup wrote: >> The "parenthesize" property is a boolean. Maybe it should be a >> boolean-or-symbol ? And if it's a symbol, the respective engraver >> collects all articulations with the same symbol and then sets one

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.02.2016 11:38, David Kastrup wrote: The "parenthesize" property is a boolean. Maybe it should be a boolean-or-symbol ? And if it's a symbol, the respective engraver collects all articulations with the same symbol and then sets one set of parentheses around all of them? I can’t quite

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.), > { 4-\tweak parenthesize #'a ^.-\tweak parenthesize #'a ^> } > > I'm not saying that this is supposed to be the last word on the > interface but it would produce the data I've been thinking of. This syntax has more flexibility than the more obvious/intuitive 4-\tweak

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David (et al.), > >> { 4-\tweak parenthesize #'a ^.-\tweak parenthesize #'a ^> } >> >> I'm not saying that this is supposed to be the last word on the >> interface but it would produce the data I've been thinking of. > > This syntax

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-02-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > { ^.^> } is equivalent to \sequential { ^.^> } which neither makes sense nor > works. Well, as a function, \parenthesize { ^.^> } makes total sense to me, and is quite different from \parenthesize ^. ^> So are you saying that there’s some technical reason -\tweak

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 14:48, Andrew Bernard wrote: If I have an accent and a staccato indication together on a note and I want a single set of parentheses around both, how can this be achieved? Is this possible? How about that? Couldn’t think of a less clumsy name. %% \version "2.19.35"

Re: Parenthesised articulations

2016-01-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.01.2016 15:02, Simon Albrecht wrote: shortAccentWithParens = -\tweak stencil #ly:text-interface::print -\tweak text \markup { Actually, each of the dashes before \tweak may be omitted. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Parenthesised articulations

2016-01-31 Thread Andrew Bernard
If I have an accent and a staccato indication together on a note and I want a single set of parentheses around both, how can this be  achieved? Is this possible? Andrew — snip % This does not achieve it. \version "2.19.35" {   c''^. -\parenthesize ^> } — snip