Re: \Overrides tweaks - changes etc...

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15.09, Trent Johnston wrote:
> Hello all again,
>
> I've been using lilypond on and off for a couple of years now. Usually I
> get turned off when trying to tweak a score to make the output better.
>
> I've read the manual dozens of times for each version.. but always get
> tripped up with the \overrides  \contexts etc... I'm a musician not a
> computer programmer so navigating and working how to put things together at
> times overloads my brain and I tend to stop using Lilypond for a while.
>
> Has anyone figured all the backend stuff?? and could pass on some hints..
> or could there be more detailed examples in the manual... I've cannibalised
> a lot of scores from Mutopia but can only use the collective wisdom for
> current lilypond version....
>
> For instance currently I want a brace around the 3 staves in my current
> score... I've used the StaffGroup in the score section which gave me the
> brace no problems ... but now I'm trying to have each staff with its own
> bar line (ie. not one single barline running from the top of the score to
> the bottom) at the same time keeping the brace. Can anyone help... and try
> if possible to talk me around the logic how to get to the workaround??

I think this is the difference between ChoirStaff and StaffGroup.

This information is available through
lilypond internals => Translation => Contexts => ChoirStaff

Unfortuntately, there is no good overview that tells you that this is where to 
look.

> I think that the output to lilypond is great but unfortunately the
> 'language programming' the user has to can be very confusing at times.
> Helping to clear this up would get a lot more people on board with using
> the program.
>
> If people wanted to send me there \overrides tweaks etc ... with an
> explanation I wouldn't mind creating a list or document with them. This
> would provide an easy reference and allow people to be able to piece
> together their own changes to suit needs as they occur.

The problem is that there are so many possible \override tweaks, so this list 
would grow too large. lilypond-internals is an exhaustive listing of all 
possible tweaks, but IMHO it lacks an easy enough overview to make it useful 
for non-gurus.

-- 
Erik