Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 27, 2010 9:54 PM

> 2.1.9 Chants psalms and hymns

I've just pushed these changes:

> - "To remove the stem set the transparent property of the Stem 
> grob to
> #t... An alternative is set the length property to 0."
>
> Please don't talk through the code.  I'm a stupid reader and can't
> follow that stuff.  I understand @lilypond and pretty pictures.

Done

> - "To use modified bar lines see the Bar lines section in Bars."
> please just @ref{Bar lines}.

Done

> In general, I think that all 4 items in Chants need @lilypond, and
> would be better being outwith (sweet, I'm using British-specific 
> words
> now!) of any "References for chants and psalms".  All four items 
> are
> too complicated / too specific to be well-explained by those
> references.

Done

Actually, "outwith" is peculiar to Scots.  I understand it,
but would never use it myself.

> I'm also wondering if there should be a dedicated Chant \include
> "chant.ly" which sets up these things, like \include 
> "gregorian.ly".
> Of course, that brings us to the ly/ cleanup, whose issue number I
> can't find within 2 minutes, but has definitely been desired since
> before GDP and won't be happening in the near future.

I started on this, but there are so many different
styles in published psalters, usually unnamed, that
I don't think this would be possible.  Instead I've
chosen to show how to include (or exclude) various
elements so users can pick and chose what they want.

> Pointing a psalm
>
> - I got a bit lost here.  Could you add a @lilypond to illustrate 
> some
> (or all) of those points (no pun intended)?

Well, I tried to include all the elements in the new
template - A.4.7 Psalms.  See if this does what you
want.  I guess I could pick out several of them and
show them separately.  I'll do that in a separate
commit.

> Cheers,
> - Graham

Trevor