Re: Dashed slur proposal

[Bertalan Fodor]

Hello,

three patches: modified convert-ly, the defaults for dashed/dotted 
slurs, and the doc. (Created against HEAD)

Bert

? slur-dash-patch2
Index: Documentation/user/notation.itely
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RCS file: /cvsroot/lilypond/lilypond/Documentation/user/notation.itely,v
retrieving revision 1.183
diff -u -r1.183 notation.itely
--- Documentation/user/notation.itely   7 Feb 2005 17:23:19 -0000       1.183
+++ Documentation/user/notation.itely   13 Feb 2005 14:45:33 -0000
@@ -2089,6 +2089,8 @@
 @code{\slurDown},
 @cindex @code{\slurNeutral}
 @code{\slurNeutral},
address@hidden @code{\slurDashed}
address@hidden,
 @cindex @code{\slurDotted}
 @code{\slurDotted},
 @cindex @code{\slurSolid}
Index: ly/property-init.ly
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RCS file: /cvsroot/lilypond/lilypond/ly/property-init.ly,v
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -r1.67 property-init.ly
--- ly/property-init.ly 12 Feb 2005 10:34:36 -0000      1.67
+++ ly/property-init.ly 13 Feb 2005 14:45:34 -0000
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
 
 % There's also dash, but setting dash period/length should be fixed.
 slurDashed = {
-       \override Slur #'dash-period = #1
+       \override Slur #'dash-period = #0.75
        \override Slur #'dash-fraction = #0.4
 }
 slurDotted = {
-       \override Slur  #'dash-period = #1
+       \override Slur  #'dash-period = #0.75
        \override Slur #'dash-fraction = #0.1
 }
 slurSolid = {
Index: scripts/convert-ly.py
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RCS file: /cvsroot/lilypond/lilypond/scripts/convert-ly.py,v
retrieving revision 1.226
diff -u -r1.226 convert-ly.py
--- scripts/convert-ly.py       4 Feb 2005 13:48:10 -0000       1.226
+++ scripts/convert-ly.py       13 Feb 2005 14:45:35 -0000
@@ -2323,6 +2323,15 @@
                     conv,
                     'ly:find-glyph-by-name -> ly:font-get-glyph, remove - from 
glyphnames.'))
 
+def conv (str):
+       str = re.sub (r"\\override\s+(Voice\.)?Slur 
#'dashed\s*=\s*#\d*(\.\d+)?",
+                     r"\\slurDashed", str)                   
+       return str
+
+conversions.append (((2, 5, 12),
+                    conv,
+                    '\set Slur #\'dashed = #X -> \slurDashed'))
+
 
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 #      END OF CONVERSIONS