Re: Feature Request: Chromatic note names

[Paul Morris]

address@hidden wrote
>>>(Rookie scheme tip: a single quote (') is not the same as a backtick (`). 
This tripped me up!) 
> 
> did i use the wrong one somewhere???

No you're fine, I just got them confused and it took awhile to figure out
what was wrong.  So just a cautionary tale for the benefit of others.  (I'm
sure they weren't actively trying to make the language more difficult, but
if they had been, this would have been a stroke of genius.)



> The biggest problem now is the ledger line thing, because i cant just
> paste the text into the traditional staff, the "ledger lines" manual
> change will mess up whatever staff it was supposed to be.

I think your best bet here is to use variables, something like this:

extendStaffTritoneUp = {
  \stopStaff \startStaff
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'( -6 0 6 12 18 24 )
  \dashedStaffSymbolLines #'(0.5 . 0.7) #'( #f #t #f #t #f #t )
 }

endStaffExtension = {
  \stopStaff \startStaff
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'( -6 0 6 12 18 )
  \dashedStaffSymbolLines #'(0.5 . 0.7) #'( #f #t #f #t #f ) 
}

Then you can put them in your music like this:

do re mi
\extendStaffTritoneUp
fa so la
\endStaffExtension
si do

see:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/organizing-pieces-with-variables

This makes it easier to input and read, and then when using your music on a
traditional staff, you can just set these variables to an empty music
expression, and they will have no effect on the music.

extendStaffUp = {}

That way you only have to make the change in one place instead of at every
occurrence.



> AND, when you take a closer look in the pdf, theres a place where the
> dashed lines override each other when I change the line layout, so i might
> get some spots of continous lines in some places where should be dashed...

I'm not sure why this is happening.  There should only be one dashed line in
any given vertical position, not two that cancel each other out.

I'm also not sure I understand the issue you describe about internal and
external ledger lines.  It sounds like you are thinking of the lines of the
extended staff as ledger lines, when they are (temporary) staff lines, so
when they are in effect they change what counts as internal/external
ledgers.  But I'm not sure how relevant that is to what you're trying to do.

Maybe a tiny example or image would help?

-Paul




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