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Re: Change time signature font
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Change time signature font |
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Fri, 24 May 2013 16:17:02 +0200 |
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David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to change the font and size of a time signature? For
>> the contemporary scores that I am setting, the traditional engraved
>> old-fashioned face for time signatures just looks out of place, and, like
>> some other engravers, I am attempting to match a very idiosyncratic
>> handwritten style in the manuscript.
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
>> \override Staff.TimeSignature #'text = \markup { \abs-fontsize #14.5
>> \bold \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.5) \center-column { \line { 16 } \line
>> { 4 } } }
>>
>> This works, but seems terribly clumsy. Is there a more elegant way?
>>
>
> The solution is to wrap your markup in some sort of function.
>
> You could do something like this:
>
> myTimeSig =
> #(define-music-function (parser location num denom)
> (string? string?)
> #{
> \override Staff.TimeSignature #'text =
> \markup {
> \abs-fontsize #14.5 \bold \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.5)
> \center-column {
> \line { #num }
> \line { #denom }
> }
> }
> #})
I'd rather use
myTimeSig =
#(define-music-function (parser location frac)
(fraction?)
#{
\once\override Staff.TimeSignature #'text =
\markup {
\abs-fontsize #14.5 \bold \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.5)
\center-column {
\line { #(number->string (car frac)) }
\line { #(number->string (cdr frac)) }
}
}
\time #frac
#})
> \new Staff {
> \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
Is that one necessary?
> \myTimeSig "16" "4"
> \time 16/4
and here just
\myTimeSig 16/4
> The following function draws the information from the time signature's
> properties:
Well, that's nicer anyway. But doing the simpler version simpler has
its charms.
--
David Kastrup