Re: harmonics and slides (issue3590041)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/11/10 12:55 PM, "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 12/11/10 12:44 PM, "Patrick Schmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Am 11.12.2010 um 18:03 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
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>>> On 12/11/10 9:54 AM, "Patrick Schmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> IMHO I think we want to have \hideNotes apply to TabVoice. I tried to
>>>> achieve glissandi with an indefinite beginning/ending (but in vain):
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>>> You can test this really easily.
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>>> Simply add
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>>> \override TabNoteHead #'transparent = ##t
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>>> after line 233 of ly/property-init.ly, and
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>>> \revert TabNoteHead #'transparent
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>>> after line 243 of ly/property-init.ly
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>>> You could do so, and make it part of this patch.
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> Carl
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>> Wow, that was easy! Unfortunately some overrides are necessary in
>> order to make the glissandi look half decent. The problem is that it
>> seems to be impossible to find an optimal setting for both staffs and
>> tab staffs. Without the overrides the slides are not visible in
>> normal staffs (not even with a 400 % zoom-in). With these overrides
>> glissandi are longer in TabStaffs than in Staffs. And because of
>> these overrides this snippet would have to go in selected snippets
>> rather than the body of the chapter?!
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> So perhaps what you do is put this (along with the \chordGlissando) function
> in a file ly/string-instruments.ly.
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Since Graham has suggested this for chordGlissando, I'll take care of adding
ly/string-instruments.ly.

Thanks,

Carl