Re: Help defining commands

[Mats Bengtsson]

Simple, just say something like

startBarre = \notes{
 \property blabla.blabla \override #'blalba  = #blablabla
 ...
 \startTextSpan
}

 /Mats

Guy Shaviv wrote:

> I'm trying to typeset music for classical guitar for which I need to be able to produce the barre 
> symbol. I've managed to acheive the desired output with text spanners via the code:
>
> \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-text = #'("C II " . "")
> \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'direction = #1
> \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'style = #'line
> \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'edge-height = #'(0 . 0.5)
> \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'padding = #1
> \property Voice.TextSpanner \set #'enclose-bounds = ##t
>
> c''\startTextSpan ..... \stopTextSpan
>
> I'de like to define this as a pair of commands. The first would be \statBarre which would take as 
> a parameter the barre position, say \startBarre "IV". The position has to be concatinated with the 
> "C" symbol and replaced as the first parameter in the edge-text property. The second command 
> is a simple \stopBarre which I think I can do by just defining:
>
> stopBarre = \stopTextSpan.
>
> Thanks. 
>
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