Re: Markup macro?

[Stewart Holmes]

Tim,

 

Thanks for your reply. \finger does does only contain characters, but that's all I'm after - I'm using it to indicate changes of fingering in piano music, e.g. 5-4 meaning changing from the 5th to 4th finger on one note.

 

I can do what I want with \markup { \finger "5-4" }, but I'm looking for a nice neat macro I can use instead of having to add markup every time.

 

Cheers,

Stewart

----- Original Message -----

From: tiM

To: 'Stewart Holmes' ; address@hidden

Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:06 AM

Subject: RE: Markup macro?

Hey stewerd,

 

i'm relatively new at lilypond so i dont know how to make functions. But since you've tried to help me. i thought it's not only about taking here.

 

\relative c'{c4-\markup { \finger 2 "-" \finger 3}}

 

gives the output i think you're looking for. Now, how to put this in a function, i wouldn't know. I hope this is of any help.

 

gr. tiM

 

p.s. on intuitive reading, i think the/one problem of your code is that the \finger command only allows you to place numbers (i think). You should look at the output of \finger more as characters than as a real font.

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Stewart Holmes
Sent: dinsdag 15 augustus 2006 1:23
To: address@hidden
Subject: Markup macro?

Hi,

 

I'm trying to do something like:

 

fingerSwitch = #(define-music-function (parser location text) (string?)
#{
    \markup { \finger $text }

#})

 

c4-\fingerSwitch

 

but it's not working. I guess that you can't attach scheme code to a note in such a way. Is there a nice neat solution to this? The original problem is that if I use, say:

 

c4-"3-2"

 

the fingering font is not used, so I'm trying to remedy that with the above scheme code.

 

Thanks,

Stewart