Re: Setting background color for a given range of measures

[Trevor Daniels]

Henk

It is possible, but rather messy, AFAIK.  Anyone know an easier way?

Here's some code to give you a start.  Essentially you draw a coloured box 
with \markup, experiment to get the right size, move it into the right 
position, and place it in layer -1 to put it underneath everything else.  If 
you add this when everything else is stable it is just about do-able.

Trevor

\version "2.11.56"
\relative c'' {
 a1 a  a
 % move to right position
 -\tweak #'extra-offset #'(-2 . -4.5)
 % place in bottom layer
 -\tweak #'layer #-1
 ^\markup {
   % specify color
   \with-color #(rgb-color 1 0.5 0.5)
   % specify size
   \filled-box #'(0 . 8) #'(0 . 4) #0
 }
 a
}

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henk van Voorthuijsen" <address@hidden>
To: "Lilipond" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:56 PM
Subject: Setting background color for a given range of measures


> Is it possible to do this, if I want to give, say, measure 17-24 a 
> different background color?
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> Henk
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