Re: Some other articulations

[Luise Marion Frenkel]

Cc-ing to the list

Hi Vivian,

Thanks for the suggestion. I might use it when producing scores for 
others, but for my use it is to cumbersome because both the trill inside 
the staff, and the steigend and fallend accents require note spacing to 
accomodate them. I know it can be done, but it is too much adjustment 
for each case, and I do not even know if it is still seen as good 
engraving practice (although the accent falled is quite common in the 
old Breitkopf Bach scores).

By the way, I just wanted to congratulate the Lily developers for the 
huge improvements in the figured bass in the last year, and thank all 
who have sponsored it.

Best regards,

Luise.


On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote:

> 
> Any sign can be included in markup if you can get it as an .eps (Encapsulated 
> Postscript) file. I'm not sure precisely what the symbols you are describing 
> look like, but if you scan them then you can convert them to an .eps file 
> using good free software (I use Inkscape for Mac OS X.) Then you put them in 
> markup with the line (for example):
> 
> c8_\markup{\epsfile #Y #7 #"ampmark.eps"}
> 
> where c8 is the note you are attaching the markup to and ampmark.eps is the 
> name of your .eps graphic. You can define the size of the graphic with the 
> two middle parameters - in my example the graphic would be 7/8ths of the 
> original size in the Y axis (I think - this isn't very well documented! I've 
> got this by trial and error!)
> 
> This isn't a perfect solution if you are using the same articulation many 
> times, but you could define some articulations at the beginning of your file 
> to override the padding for these articulations to align them as you want.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vivian. 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Luise Marion Frenkel <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 July, 2006 7:13:02 PM
> Subject: Some other articulations
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am copying some arias from Bach's Passions, after Breitkopf/Dover, and 
> I cannot find how to type in Lilypond 2.8.1 some articulations. I 
> have looked through the 2.9 Manual, Tips & Tricks and Regression, to no 
> avail.
> 
> 1) (most important): accent steigend and accent fallend. I am 
> mimicking these with \repeatTie but the localization is not good and 
> results pretty ambiguous. To write them as acciacaturas with the 
> "grace" note with note head and stem invisible is very cumbersome and 
> does not seem good either.
> 
> 2) a kind of trill, whose sign is not tr but some sort of tc or t+accent 
> fallend. Seems impossible to immitate, so I am just writing a t in 
> markup.
> 
> 3) a prallup with a more pronounced "up" wich litterally goes up the 
> next note because it is not written above the staff, but between the 
> notes, and requires a greater spacing of the notes. I am just moving the 
> existing prallup and remembering what it should be.
> 
> I would like to know if these are no longer seen as good engraving 
> practice and for what they should be exchanged, or if they can be done 
> using Lily.
> 
> Unfortunately I am completely unable to sponsor any related feature, 
> although I would be happy to see these articulations included in 
> Lilypond.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Luise.
> 
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