Re: Adding a continuous drone to midi output

[David Kastrup]

Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:

> On 22 May 2018 at 20:06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Ok, this is _too_ much of a temptation.  So little to fill in
>> actually...
>>
>> Now it would be even nicer to be able to write
>>
>> c'1*#(ly:music-length musicwithdrone)
>>
>> and there is actually no compelling reason not to allow this I think.
>> I'll take a look to see what would be involved adding to the parser
>> here.
>>
>> This really beats "LilyPond programmers are lazy jerks" solution-finding
>> approaches.
>>
>
> That would be absolutely brilliant, David! If you do it I will start
> promoting the "Lilypond programmers are hard-working saints" meme. ☺

Turns out that I don't have a good idea where to document this in the
manuals.  At least I added a (half-stolen) regtest that at least
illustrates how this can be used for your usage case.

Current branch: issue5327
Tracker issue: 5327 (https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5327/)
Rietveld issue: 346810043 (https://codereview.appspot.com/346810043)
Issue description:
  Allow Scheme/identifiers for duration multipliers   Also contains
  commit:  Regtest for computed duration multipliers


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David Kastrup