Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
How do you do that in Sibelius? Perhaps mirroring the same approach would be the best. 3. Engrave a line when needed using draw-line as part of a markup command. This seems to be the most flexible, but suffers from the following problems: a) the line will automatically offset to avoid

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Flesher
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool lilypondtool at organum.hu writes: How do you do that in Sibelius? Perhaps mirroring the same approach would be the best. With Sibelius, one can easily start and stop a staff mid-system (or measure) by changing that staff to an invisible one. Thus, the passage

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Eric Flesher wrote: With Sibelius, one can easily start and stop a staff mid-system (or measure) by changing that staff to an invisible one. Thus, the passage was engraved with two staves: a normal one for pitched notes, and a second, single line staff above for non-pitched notes. Instead of

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/21/09 3:27 PM, Eric Flesher e...@ericflesher.com wrote: I'm having serious problems figuring out a workable solution to the problem below: Per Kurt Stone, breath tones (on woodwinds or brass) with no pitch content should preferably be written on a separate tablature line above the

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I'm currently working on a music function which could do all of the tweaking internally. Me too! I'm close, but I got stuck on notehead X-extents... - Mark attachment: breath-tones_1.png\version 2.12.1 \include english.ly #(define (stencil-width stil) (let

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/23/09 2:23 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I'm currently working on a music function which could do all of the tweaking internally. Me too! I'm close, but I got stuck on notehead X-extents... Well, you're way ahead of me, so I'll quit

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Polesky
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Well, you're way ahead of me, so I'll quit working on this. Carl, didn't mean to steal your thunder... And your coding was looking leaner than mine (I always end up doing things the long way). Eric, I've gotten as far as I care to for now. Undoubtedly you'll want to

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 1/23/09 3:48 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: Well, you're way ahead of me, so I'll quit working on this. Carl, didn't mean to steal your thunder... And your coding was looking leaner than mine (I always end up doing things the long way). No

Re: air-tone tablature

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Flesher
Mark Polesky markpolesky at yahoo.com writes: Eric, I've gotten as far as I care to for now. Undoubtedly you'll want to tweak things anyway, so I'm sending off what I have as it is. You could re-code the stencil using Carl's (more efficient) way, but the code here should work fine. Let