Re: alternate note of trill and its accidental

[Jacob Smullyan]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:21:34PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Paul forgot to mention that his answer used the new tex markup syntax
> from the development version 1.7.xx and won't work directly in the
> stable series 1.6.xx. I don't have Lilypond installed here right now, but
> I'm sure someone else on the mailing list can provide you with a tested
> version for 1.6.xx if necessary. Basically, it's something like
> c4^#(columns (music "scripts-trill") (music "accidentals-0"))

Thanks, that was a big help.  The above didn't quite work, but it led
me in a workable direction.  For the record, this is what I have at
the moment, with a little context:

     \time 3/8
     < {df'4^#'(columns((music "scripts-trill")))^#'(columns((music 
"accidentals--1"))) (} { s8...  \grace {[c!8 df!8]}}> ) d!16. d,!32
     df'8.^#'(columns((music "scripts-trill")))^#'(columns((music 
"accidentals--1"))) ( < df!8.^#'(columns((music 
"scripts-trill")))^#'(columns((music "accidentals--2"))) {s8 s32.. \grace {[c!8 
df!8]}} >
     ) d!8 c,,!4

(I'm not sure that the "columns" are necessary -- I'm groping a bit!)
The output is OK, but not optimal.  The accidental above the trill
mark is too large, the slur cuts across the trill in a rather
unfortunate way, and I'd still prefer a wavy line after the trill (in
the second measure, going the full length of the measure over both
noteheads, underneath the auxilliary accidentals).  But I can live
with this.  I'm impressed that lilypond can produce very serviceable
output without any fine-tuning (although there seems a rather sharp
divide between the high-level interface -- c b s4 etc. -- and the
low-level one).

Jacob Smullyan

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