Re: anybody understand the instrumentCueName docs?

[Keith E OHara]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:40:54 -0700, Keith E OHara wrote:

> Corresponding suggestions for vocal.itely will follow shortly.

One thing worth discussing is that I use the verb "to cue" differently from the 
original author.

I believe that to cue is to *give* a signal for someone else to begin action.  
So the instrument playing just before the singer begins is the cue-ing 
instrument (or the quoted instrument) and the singer is cued.  Similarly, the 
notes are 'cue notes', which we might have hyphenated fifty years ago, rather 
than 'cued notes'.


Suggestions attached as a diff,
except that the cueWhile function is in a snippet, not the .itely, so the 
corresponding change is below :
cueWhile =
#(define-music-function
   (parser location instrument name dir music)
   (string? string? ly:dir? ly:music?)
    #{
      \cueDuring $instrument #$dir {
        \once \override TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT
        \once \override TextScript #'direction = $dir
        s1*0-\markup { \tiny $name }
        $music
      }
    #}
  )

-Keith

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