Re: Mixing music and markup in Scheme

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Mixing music and markup in Scheme


> Phil Holmes <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yet another question about Scheme functions (note - I _do_ try to find 
> > the
> > answers to my questions by reading the manual and experimenting, and have
> > been looking at this for a couple of hours without success).
> >
> > Background: Renaissance music has a somewhat cavalier attitude to
> > placement of accidentals.  Sometimes they are conventionally placed to 
> > the
> > left of the note, and occasionally they are placed above the note, like
> > musica ficta in modern transcriptions.  If I use \set suggestAccidentals 
> > =
> > ##t in Mensural music, I get a modern accidental sign, so this doesn't
> > help setting these.  A long-hand way of getting this effect is:
>
> Ugh.
>
> Being cleverer than LilyPond rarely pays off.


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> mus = \relative c''
> { c4 d e \once \set suggestAccidentals = ##t fis
> }
>
> \score {
>  \new MensuralStaff \with { \override 
> AccidentalSuggestion.glyph-name-alist =
>      #alteration-mensural-glyph-name-alist }
>    {
>      \new MensuralVoice { \mus }
>    }
> }


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> --
> David Kastrup

Excellent, as always.  Thanks.

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Phil Holmes