RE: what does adorn mean in this context? question continues GDP

[Trevor Daniels]

Hi Jay

I'd rewite the sentence containing 'adorn' as:

There are two music functions, balloonGrobText and balloonText.  The former is 
used like rather like \once \override to attach text to any grob, and the 
latter is used like \tweak, typically within chords, to attach text to an 
individual note when there are several occuring at the same musical moment.

Perhaps a clearer example would be:

\new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" }
     {
       \balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { "I'm a Stem" }
       a'8
       <c' g'-\balloonText #'(-2 . -2) \markup { "I'm a note head" } c''>8
     }

HTH

Trevor

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> question continues GDP
> 
> 
> I knew/know what adorn in English and 
> articulations are in music however in the context 
> of 1.7.2.1 of the GDP they don't seem to mean 
> that.  What is 'adorned' here?  Does it mean 
> enhanced? (not to me)  And looking at the code 
> and seeing the result does anyone see a 
> difference between text and GrobText?
> 
> Just need an clearer way to say whatever it is 
> that is happening with this code.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Yours-
> Jay
> 
> Jay Hamilton
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> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:20:09 +0100
> From: Nicholas WASTELL <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: what does adorn mean in this context? GDP
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> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:26:58 -0800
> "Jay Hamilton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > There are two music functions, balloonGrobText 
> and balloonText; the former takes the name of the 
> grob to adorn, while the latter may be used as an 
> articulation on a note. The other arguments are 
> the offset and the text of the label.
> > 
> > the words after the semicolon (;) look like 
> they make sense but adorn and articulation don't 
> really make sense
> 
> I'm a native English (en-GB) speaker, but I am 
> not familiar with the balloon function. ;-)  However:
> 
> To adorn is to decorate and enhance.  It's rather 
> an old-fashioned word, I suppose. 
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adorn>

Articulation in this context is a musical term, meaning a mark (e.g., accent, 
staccato dot, stopped mark) against a note showing how it should be delivered 
(i.e., articulated).  <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/articulation>

It doesn't explain (to me) the difference between the two functions.  I'd have 
a look in LSR, but it appears to be down at the moment.

hth,

Nick.
-- 
Nicholas WASTELL
France




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