RE: suggestion for LM 5.1.3

[Trevor Daniels]

OK, thanks, Andrew.  I've noted this for the next revision
of that section (and Mats' later amendment).

Trevor D

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> Andrew Hawryluk
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> Subject: suggestion for LM 5.1.3
>
>
> Under LM 5.1.3 "Large projects" could we include
> something like this?
> It might also fit under 5.1.4 "Saving typing with
> variables and
> functions". Either way, I didn't discover this
> simple idea until I was
> browsing through the mailing list, and it would
> have saved me some
> trouble. (I was adding rehearsal marks to each
> instrument's music
> variable. How embarrassing!)
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> *** start draft text ***
>
> In large projects, you can combine several
> reusable variables to make
> a single staff of music. For example, if three
> trumpet lines have the
> same dynamics we could create a single variable
> that holds only the
> dynamic indications separated by skips. Likewise,
> if rehearsal marks
> are needed, they will be the same for all instruments.
>
> trumpetdynamics = { s1\f s1*10 s1\mp }
> rehearsalmarks = {s8 \mark \default }
> ...
> \score { <<
>     \new Staff { << \firsttrumpetnotes
> \trumpetdynamics \rehearsalmarks >> }
>     \new Staff { << \secondtrumpetnotes
> \trumpetdynamics \rehearsalmarks >> }
> >> }
>
> *** end draft text ***
>
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