Re: question about a <> mark similar to a c-> notation...

[Arno Waschk]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:20:34 +0100 (CET), Juergen Reuter  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> If I understand you correctly, you want to add a new articulation script
> (rather than patching the code for dynamic marks).  That's quite easy, if
> you are a little bit familiar with metafont.  For that purpose, you  
> should
>
> * add the articulation sign to the feta font; see file  
> mf/feta-schrift.mf;

okay, i am not exactly familiar with it, although i can understand some  
parts of those files. But still i would be very grateful to be hinted to a  
encoding reference or the like. Does somebody know a link?
I guess i can complete that thing then. I might propose some more patches  
for some other useful marks if i won't appear the only person to find them  
useful...

Thanks, Arno

>   I guess the direction (up/down) does not matter for espressivo marks,
>   hence a single character "espressivo" should suffice; you may want to
>   have a look at the sforzatoaccent as an example of a similar character
>   that is already in the font;
>
> * tell lily about your articulation sign by adding it to the file
>   scm/script.scm (twice the same character "espressivo" for both
>   directions, up and down);
>
> * add a handy shortcut to the file ly/script-init.ly
>
> * for testing, add it to input/test/script-chart.ly
>
> * for documentation, add it to the Articulations section (currently
>   section 5.7.8) of the user manual; see
>   Documentation/user/notation.itely.
>
> And, whenever changing feta-schrift, don't forget to clean the font such
> that all font files will be rebuilt; otherwise, you will not see any
> change, or the font will be messed up (as inserting a new character
> changes the numbers in the font tables).
>
> BTW. (Carl/Graham?), maybe above instructions fit into the programming
> concepts manual?
>
> Greetings,
> Jürgen
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Arno Waschk wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:57:11 -0700, Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 29-Oct-04, at 11:17 PM, Arno Waschk wrote:
> > >> Can i produce an espressivo mark (or however you might call it, i  
> > mean a
> > >> little crescendo sign and a little decrescondo sign being placed  
> > above
> > >> or
> > >> below a note head, similar to an accent or an upbow sign...)??
> > >>
> > >> I know that there is an example with a second silent voice where you
> > >> put visaible crescendos along, but those are very difficult to get
> > >> centered close around the note head, and since i need some hundreds  
> > of
> > >> them, i would be very glad about a less key-strokes solution... ;)
> > >
> > > That's the only way to do it so far.  Patches are appreciated.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > - Graham
> > >
> >
> > okay, that's clear an answer.
> > Where in the source is the accent defined which is created when i type
> > something like c4-> ??
> >
> > Thanks, Arno
> >
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