Re: Following voices in chords?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 5/7/10 9:37 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 5/7/10 8:54 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I appreciate your consistent questioning as to how we might be able to
>>>> get LilyPond to behave in a way that seems consistent with our
>>>> expectations.  I wish I had the time to understand the internals of
>>>> parsing better so I could contribute more in this area.  But I don't,
>>>> so I do the best I can with the time I have.
>>> 
>>> And it's appreciated.  In an ideal world, the snippet corpus would be
>>> without things one would label "hack".
>> 
>> Well, I'll work on fixing the hack so it rotates the chords.  I don't
>> think it's too big a shift.
> 
> Probably not.
> 
>> Hopefully that will get the job done for you, until somebody can get
>> it fixed right.
> 
> With the rotation trick and with the clashing notecolumn warning
> removed, there are enough non-trivial components for trickery there to
> make this code an interesting template for other tasks even when a
> "proper fix" might be available eventually.

Unfortunately, the rotation trick messes up the note values when the chord
is in relative mode.  I haven't been able to figure out a better hack to do
it, so I guess we're stuck with the existing chord-glissando for now.

Thanks,

Carl