Re: How to trigger rall. in articulate.ly

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 13:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The articulate.ly script appears to support rallentando but I can't
> > figure out how to trigger it. In LilyPond AFAIK rall. is expressed as
> > text in a text spanner, there's no dedicated event type (if I'm using
> > the right sort of terminology here ...)
> 
> And that's how articulate appears to be doing it:
> 
>        ((TextScriptEvent)
>         (let ((t (ly:music-property e 'text)))
>          (if (not (string? t))
>           (loop factor (cons e newelements) tail actions)
>           (begin
>            (cond
>             ((or
>               (string= t "rall")
[...]
> Should it rather (or additionally) heed \tempo "rall" ?  Probably.

Thank you - I should have seen this passage but, somehow, didn't. Some
experimenting (working back from TextScriptEvent mentioned there) and I
have got it to work - it requires some input like ^"rall." without any
preceding \italic or \mark or ..., in other words, very sensitive to the
exact syntax.

Richard