RE: use the \tweak command (was Re: Coloring ornaments)

[Trevor Daniels]

Hi David

You almost have it right, but to color articulations you need to place a "-" 
before the tweak, as it the \tweak were an articulation itself, like this:

\relative c'' {
  c8
  % B with red mordent
  b -\tweak #'color #red \mordent
  c
}

I don't think this was documented in the old manuals, but it is in the GDP 
Learning Manual.  See towards the end of Section 4.1.4 Tweaking methods, which 
covers the use of \tweak in detail.

Trevor D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u
> address@hidden Behalf Of
> David Fedoruk
> Sent: 11 March 2008 09:09
> To: Lilypond mailing list
> Subject: Re: use the \tweak command (was Re: 
> Coloring ornaments)
> 
> 
> Yes, I've seen that page and it works for 
> indvidual NoteHeads. I do
> not want to colour the note heads, I want to 
> color the ornament
> (articulation) over it.
> 
> I just do not know how to specify the ornament 
> specifically. I Know
> that it is linked to or is a property of the 
> NoteHead, i jut don't
> know how to name it.
> 
> You can see that I've taken parts of the syntax 
> for individual notes,
> but that doesn't get the ornament. Lilypond chokes after
> NoteHead.articulation. -type halts the program.
> 
> >  > % articulation-type (string)
> >  > color = \override NoteHead.articulation-type 
> "mordent" = #darkred
> >  >
> >  > Lilypond complains about the "-type"  and 
> also complains about
> >  > "-mordent", so that is not right, but I do 
> not know where to go from
> >  > here.
> >  >
> >  > Help on this would be appreciated,
> >
> >  
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/l
> ilypond/Objects-connected-to-the-input
> >
> >  try e.g.
> >  {
> >   c4-\tweak #'color #red -\prall
> >  }
> >
> 
> I have successfully all the notes of one voice, 
> but this did not catch
> the ornaments. It was interesting, but not what I wanted
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> P.S. I just tried the  \tweak solution again and 
> got this error:
> 
> Bach_bwv814.ly:33:0: error: syntax error, 
> unexpected STRING
> 
> rhOne = {
> Bach_bwv814.ly:41:32: error: syntax error, 
> unexpected EVENT_IDENTIFIER
>         b'8.\tweak #'color #red
>                                 \mordent[ cs''16 
> ] d''16[ b' e'' b' ]
> fs''8[ b'~ ] b'16[ b' e'' d'' ]                   
>  | % bar 1
> Bach_bwv814.ly:82:8: error: errors found, 
> ignoring music expression
> 
> 
> %%%%
> 
> I believe the problem is that I am not naming the 
> object I'm trying to
> color correctly. There is another post about 
> coloring a Cautionary
> accidental
> 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2
007-03/msg00275.html>

His problem was that he called the object Voice.Accidental. This is
incorrect, it should be AccidentalCautionary. Thats why i think I'm
naming the object incorrectly.

Cheers again

∂œ



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David Fedoruk
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Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003


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